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“... alter some colours in a painting (a red lake fading away, a copper resinate green turning brown), it is possible that the removal of a discoloured varnish will create a discordant effect which outweighs the advantages of returning some portions to their original condition. There is surely no one correct approach for conservators to take. There is one ...”

“... Speaking of a piece in gypsum alabaster, Penny writes: ‘The stone is white but with a few brown streaks in it and a network of translucent veinings, giving it an organic appearance, even more so than that of ivory, and this, together with its softness, makes it an almost alarming material in which to see naked flesh represented.’ The materials of ...”

“... of the Caribbean and the Mascarene islands. Functionaries like Pierre Poivre in Mauritius and Alexander Anderson in Saint Vincent combined Enlightenment ideas about agronomy and plant chemistry with a proto-Romantic appreciation of nature, and, above all, a sensitivity to the impact of capitalist agriculture on tropical island ecosystems. These ...”

“... Jean Edgar Farce’s unappealing description of her in 1905 as a ‘32-year-old woman, tall, brown hair, blinks her eyes, walks with a slight stoop, dressed in dark grey’.It is nothing new for Krupskaya to have a bad press, whether from contemporary revolutionaries and police spies or later historians. A Russian police report made a few years after ...”

“... classroom? Have you ever noticed how most museum-goers don’t stop in front of Picasso’s dense, brown-hued Cubist masterpieces of 1911-12? Is Ellington’s accessibility compromised by puzzlement at the band’s idiosyncratic jungle sounds?The Jungle Band’s most extraordinary sounds were produced by the trumpeters Bubber Miley and Cootie Williams (who ...”

“... Venetian girl’. On that occasion he had been competing in the swim with a bachelor friend, Alexander Scott, and the Cavalier Angelo Mengaldo, a former officer in Napoleon’s Army who claimed to have swum the Berezina under Russian gunfire. Mengaldo took to a gondola long before Venice was reached, and Scott gave up at the Rialto bridge. If Byron’s ...”

“... sewing room, I’m inky, threaded with spectra, gynaecological Eyeball thistle-tassels of the sea Brown, blue-grey, single-cell-like Pre-embryo materials in store But never used, spermatozoic spirits Haunt the sunned waters, séances of plankton lie Paperweight-still, flower-heads, floating marbles Undulating in slow liquid glass I am too antisyzygously ...”

“... Zdenek Pesánek’s ‘colour piano’ (constructed in the shape of an abstracted guitar); Alexander László’s ‘sonchromatoscope’ – all novelties that aimed to correct what Hans Richter called ‘the stupid prejudice that contemporary art problems can only be resolved in oil painting or in bronze’. Grandes folies all: too delicate and ...”

“... of the cold – just like polar bears and white hares, though the same animals are black or brown in southern climates. Albert does report certain stereotypes about Black women, namely that they desire sex more often than white women and produce more nourishing breast milk (this notion comes from Avicenna). In both Cologne and Paris, Albert interacted ...”

“... a sign of adaptation to energy independence from Russia. The Putin-supporting leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, was filmed chopping logs, trolling his European counterparts by saying that in the absence of Russian gas, EU citizens couldn’t be too choosy about whether fir or birch made better firewood.My own woodstore isn’t as full as I’d like. I ...”

“... MacAulay, one of several people too old or infirm to go to Canada. In the words of the folklorist Alexander Carmichael, ‘she wandered about from house to house and from townland to townland, warmly welcomed and cordially received wherever she went, and remained in each place longer or shorter according to the population and the season, and as the people ...”

“... under Elizabeth and James I. Terence Hawkes, Francis Barker and Peter Hulme (AS), and Paul Brown (PS), link The Tempest with the ideology of colonisation, arguing that the play’s formal involutions reflect, not transcendent truths about illusion and reality, but the ideological strains of legitimising overseas conquest. Political Shakespeare ends ...”

“... and occasionally ‘leonine’, powerfully felt by men and women, the yellow/honey-brown eyes often described as ‘burning’. This new Stalin has physical grace (despite the limp and the webbed feet) and a ‘detached magnetism’. He is a Caucasian, exotic and mysterious, as a man of secrets should be; a romantic poet of some achievement; a ...”

“... to racial hierarchy. ‘Our new government … rests,’ the Confederate vice president, Alexander Stephens, observed, ‘upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.’Lincoln did not believe that the federal government had the authority to do ...”

“... had a white tie, and money for taxis, I was a convenient escort for Helene at embassies or in the Alexander Platz. My first sharp political lesson came in the course of my term with a Jewish publisher. I found him in tears one morning just after Hitler had taken over: he had had all his books seized – an experience that was to keep me on the left ever ...”