Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...their very simplicity, they were a superb matrix for the changing effects of light and color. Sometimes Monet's grainstacks glow like furnaces, their shadow lines breaking into excited flurries of crimson and blue; sometimes they are dirty brown, between the inert pewter sky of winter and the white crust of snow...
Among those who have gained admission to the upper crust's official ranks are the offspring of the late Sir Lennox Berkeley, composer-son of an illegitimate member of the Earl of Berkeley's family. Said his widow, Lady Elizabeth: "My only regret is that my husband did not live...
Modern Times by Paul Johnson (1983). The former editor of Britain's New Statesman has the crust and style to pinpoint evil in an age of moral relativism, and he is not talking about Gordon Gekko's affirmative views on a greedy decade. The villains are the tyrants of both the left and the right who have perpetrated outrages in the name of the modern secular state...