Word: moonlit
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...moonlit evening sky and a latticework of bare black trees dwarf two figures in white fancy dress. It looks like a dreamscape, and the picture's title, A Carnival Evening, just adds to the enigma. The atmospheric, accomplished work could have been painted yesterday. In fact it's dated 1886, and was one of the first works shown in public by French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910). The artist's flat, hard-edged style and singular imagination owed nothing to anybody. His pictures could be ordinary or outrageous: he depicted the bourgeoisie wearing their Sunday best and he painted mysterious...
...visit of Emmeline Pankhurst, Britain’s foremost militant suffragette, for a lecture series with other suffragists and Ivy League professors. Three years later, Harvard welcomed Jane Addams of Hull House; in 1918, Congress passed the Susan B. Anthony Bill, the first step towards enfranchisement. While ginger ale, moonlit walks, and secret sleepovers might have been fulfilling enough for the 1905 woman, The Club risked falling victim to its own conceit...
...drive over to Longdale to inspect the ruins of a Negro church that had been burned down by segregationists. Returning to Meridian, they were picked up outside Philadelphia by Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price for speeding. Price said later he had held them until 10:30 that steamy, moonlit night, then turned them loose...
...moon above. In another book those could be elements of a lonely, scary adventure. Here they're the setting for a strangely soothing bedtime story, illustrated by charmingly simple drawings. A polar-bear cub ventures out of the cozy den where her mother sleeps, drawn by "something in the moonlit stillness [that] quietly beckons. What is it?" The air of expectancy and mystery builds as she passes other sleeping animals--walrus, seals, whales--and arrives atop a mountain of snow, where "she waits, wondering." The moon, her companion, waits with her. Then a spectacular shower of shooting stars lights...
Light and sound also help to root each of Li’l Bit’s memories in a particular place and time: warm light creates a moonlit night in the car or period music adds authenticity to a scene when she attends a school dance...