Word: plaines
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...moldering eminences from the salons and academies of preimpressionist France, forgotten men like Jean-Pierre Alexandre Antigna, Frangois Bonvin, Joseph Bail or Alphonse Legros, would some day be in the museums again and become the subject of excited scholarly debate, he would have been thought not merely perverse but plain...
...Beardsley was disabled by poverty and tuberculosis and defamed because of his association with Wilde and the supercilious periodical The Yellow Book. But the artist intensely disliked the writer and was, in fact, obsessively heterosexual. Yeats was to recall him in the company of a notorious London tart, "Penny Plain." His health failing, the God-haunted Beardsley finally converted to Roman Catholicism and implored from his deathbed to have "all obscene drawings" destroyed. Fortunately, Benkovitz notes, he was ignored. Without that pivotal oeuvre, the world of graphic art would be impoverished...
...Harvard men's lacrosse team, battered by injuries, inexperience and just plain lack of practice, suffered its fourth straight loss of the still-young season last night, dropping a 9-7 decision to Boston College, on the lighted Astroturf at Alumni Stadium...
...soldiers fanned out along a deadend track leading to Cerro los Ganchos, a favorite guerrilla observation post. Along the way, they stopped to search deserted farms, with their seed bins full of grain and with little family shrines with holy pictures on their plain walls...
Almost completely ravished during World War II, Munich has yet to finish the task of rebuilding. Bombed-out churches and rubble-filled lots dot the landscape. Lacking the money to restore all of the city's splendid buildings and monuments, painters have recreated some of the original structures on plain walls, complete with stairs and windows. The bright colors of the fake buildings create the atmosphere of an outdoor circus or the set for a play...