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eclipse
eclipse [Gr.,=failing], in astronomy, partial or total obscuring of one celestial body by the shadow of another. Best known are the lunar eclipses, which occur when the earth blocks the sun's light from the moon, and solar eclipses, occurring when the moon blocks the sun's light from a small... Read more |
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Apollodorus
Apollodorus , fl. 430-400 BC, Athenian painter, called the Shadower, said to have introduced the use of light and shade to model form. Among his few known works are Ajax Struck by Lightning and Priest in the Act of Devotion; both were at Pergamum in the time of Pliny the Elder; none has... Read more |
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Paul Vincent Carroll
Paul Vincent Carroll 1900-1968, Irish playwright. His plays, vigorous commentaries on the conflicts of village life in Ireland, include Shadow and Substance (1937), The White Steed (1939), The Wise Have Not Spoken (1946), and The Wayward Saint (1955). Bibliography: See his Irish Stories... Read more |
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diffraction
diffraction bending of waves around the edge of an obstacle. When light strikes an opaque body, for instance, a shadow forms on the side of the body that is shielded from the light source. Ordinarily light travels in straight lines through a uniform, transparent medium, but those light waves that... Read more |
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idealism
idealism the attitude that places special value on ideas and ideals as products of the mind, in comparison with the world as perceived through the senses. In art idealism is the tendency to represent things as aesthetic sensibility would have them rather than as they are. In ethics it implies a... Read more |
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shadow
SHADOW (ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY) In Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology, the shadow as a concept comprises everything the conscious personality experiences as negative. In dreams and fantasies the shadow appears with the characteristics of a personality of the same sex as the ego, but in a very... Read more |
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underpainting
underpainting. The preliminary blocking out of a composition on the painting surface in which the main shapes and tones of the picture are established before being built up by layers of glazes, scumbles, or solid paint. Until the late 19th century, when alla prima painting became general, most... Read more |
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cornice
cornice , molded or decorated projection that forms the crowning feature at the top of a building wall or other architectural element; specifically, the uppermost of the three principal members of the classic entablature , hence by extension any similar crowning and projecting element in the... Read more |
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Bankruptcy reorganization
I NTRODUCTION S ome psychologists have suggested that there is something within the human psyche that craves monsters and mysterious creatures. For some individuals, the very idea that vampires, werewolves,and chupacabrasare out there, lurking in... Read more |
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Juan Atkins
Juan Atkins 1962— Musician Juan Atkins is generally recognized as one of the creators of techno music, which spawned a whole group of genres now known as electronica, and he was probably the first person to apply the word "techno" to music. His novel electronic soundscapes influenced nearly... Read more |
 "The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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'IT'S A GAS GAS GAS!'.(DAYBREAK)(THE SKINNY)(Column)
...Con" is not about George Bush; here are other Stones songs not about Bush: * Tumbling Rice * Sympathy...You) Get Offa My Ranch * Have You Seen a Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows? * Head of Stone * Let... |
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The fringe contender
...nursing her baby in the shadows. You can...stage to a standing ovation as...with George W Bush when he visited...supporters would have to cough up...American is seen as laughably...authority have given her...tribal leaders have welcomed timber... |
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Giraffes splay, elephants sway: We saw it all on Kenya safari.(Viewpoint)
...half-dozen babies. We first heard...had already seen lion staking...of flamingo standing in Lake Natron in the shadow of Shompole...researchers have put GPS collars...through the bush, a habitat...ones we had seen from the ridge...ran out of the bush to block our... |
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On safari in the garden of eden
...wildebeest casting shadows on his tent...stays in two bush camps in Kenya...leaving her baby. The baby had seen my lantern and...largest free-standing mountain. Known...kaiser is said to have complained to...something I will have to take on faith...Four tents ... |
 "Daily Mail (London)")
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Enda the messiah rose and the faithful rejoiced...(Features)
...Kenny should have been having...evidently seen greatness and he's seen it in the...that we were standing outside a...blessing babies and healing...room of the Bush Hotel, it can't have escaped his...out of the shadows. Either way... |
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Hard lessons from the class struggle
...4The Mulberry Bush school in Oxfordshire...institutions have given up hope...what the staff have to put up with...Charlie was seen standing on a desk...parent must have felt some shadow of those feelings...having "that baby smell" around... |
 "The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)")
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WALKING IN WASHINGTON, VOICE RAISED
...ignorance. The Bush administration...was an anti-Bush rally emphasizing...people nursing babies, families with...I've never seen so many people...of the people standing on the sidelines...care if women have a right to make...gather in the shadow of the Washington...that George ... |
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Lost and alone amid the rubble
...But I'd have felt equally...valley of the shadow of death...One for My Baby".) Whatever...last man left standing in a collapsed...It could have been a line...everything we'd seen and heard...that George Bush never got past...But who would have been the right... |
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Festival Special: recommendations: Top shows at the Book Festival
...stay in the shadows. XINRAN XUE...Chinese writers have always been...he has ever seen. Panpan's...August 26. Where Have All the Boys...ll take the baby to see if he...looks at other babies. NED SHERRIN...as a long-standing Arthur Conan...Steve Bell I have long been ... |
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READERS DON'T TAKE PRAYERS AT GAMES LIGHTLY.(Life and Arts)
...Christians have as much right...love to pray standing in the synagogues...corners to be seen by men. But...media. "These have increased since Bush (oh how I dislike...first faint shadow of orthodoxy...though I had just seen an eagle go by, carrying a baby," White wr |
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