Sentences with phrase «flypaper of»

Hughes collaborated with a number of visual artists including Mexican painter Miguel Covarrubias, who illustrated «The Weary Blues,» Hughes's first books, a collection of poems published in 1926; photographer Roy DeCarava on «The Sweet Flypaper of Life»; German - American artist Winold Reiss; and artist Aaron Douglas, his friend and Harlem Renaissance peer.

He referred to the Sweet Flypaper of Life, a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes, as an example of an influential work.

When Roy DeCarava set out in mid-twentieth century Harlem to undertake what would become the landmark photobook The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), he employed photography as «a creative expression to meditate on everyday life and family,» says Drew Sawyer, head of exhibitions and curator of photography at the Columbus Museum of Art.

The Sweet Flypaper of Life has been chosen as the starting point for Family Pictures, a group exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, opening February 16, 2018, that spans a period of 60 years.

In 1955, he co-authored The Sweet Flypaper of Life with Langston Hughes focusing his lens on illustrating the human qualities of African American life in Harlem.

He eventually published 140 pictures along with text by Langston Hughes in The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a fictional family album that tenderly captures intimate moments of domestic life both in Harlem and seemingly everywhere.

Smith originally imagined the series would be accompanied by Wilson's text, much like Langston Hughes» text for DeCarava's pictures in The Sweet Flypaper of Life.

Not exact matches

Procter & Gamble Co., which last summer launched Zevo plug - ins that dispatch flying insects to the great bug beyond using blue - lit flypaper modules in electrical outlets, is expanding the brand with a new line of bug sprays.

A massive pile of pork ribs and a Volkswagen - sized hunk of black - as - a-meteor beef sit steaming under the waving flypaper strands.

In Oruro, Bolivia, Cougar safety Scott Peterson was lying diagonally on his undersized bed under flypaper spattered with casualties, listening to the Armed Forces Radio broadcast of the game and biting back the black wish that his teammates not win it all without him.

They lack solid surfaces on which to land, plus their fearsome gravity and thick clouds of ammonium compounds would make departure a task akin to that of an insect struggling free from a piece of flypaper.

Toner pumped samples of whole blood through the channels, which were coated with an antibody designed to trap any cancer cell that carries a common surface protein, much as flypaper snags pesky insects.

Syndecans are a family of proteins on the surface of cells that act as molecular «flypaper,» helping proteins attach to cells and also helping cells attach to one another.

We love L'Oréal Paris Colour Riche Balm Pop in Wild Lily and Lancôme Baume in Love in Urban Ballet — both balms — because they create a pretty wash of color and moisturize lips, without the goopiness (or hair - in - flypaper effect) of some glosses.

Slowly, this nondescript motel room becomes a forest of flypaper strips and a thicket of psychoses — and what began as kitchen - sink naturalism becomes, well, crazy shit.

Lucas and Moore also did a movie called Flypaper, a sort of comedy caper that had its world premiere at Sundance.

Flypaper, directed by Rob Minkoff and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore tells the story of what happens when three separate crews mistakenly decide to rob a bank at the same time.

Beginners (BD / DVD)-- Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent Bellflower (BD / DVD)-- Evan Glodell, Tyler Dawson, Jessie Wiseman Evil Dead 2: 25th Anniversary Edition (BD)-- Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks Flypaper (BD / DVD)-- Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Pruitt Taylor Vince Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis: Special Edition (BD / DVD)-- Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich Humongous (DVD)-- Janet Julian, David Wallace, John Wildman Infernal Affairs (BD)-- Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Anthony Wong Chau - Sang Larry Crowne (BD / DVD)-- Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Sarah Mahoney The Lion King (DVD)-- Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones My Fair Lady (BD)-- Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway Main Street (BD / DVD)-- Colin Firth, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson Neverwhere (DVD)-- Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett Rules of the Game [Criterion](BD / DVD)-- Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost Spy Kids Triple Feature (BD / DVD)-- Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas Three Colors: Blue, White, Red [Criterion](BD)-- Irène Jacob, Jean - Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder West Side Story: 50th Anniversary Edition (BD)-- Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer

John's initially passive observations blur into a frenetic, subjective tailspin of delusions and inebriated anxiety; his pretty - boy appearance grows grimy, his white clothes assume the soiled hue of flypaper yellow, and arid grit gets plastered to every surface, caked on every sweaty face.

Andy posted «another indictment of «turnarounds»» on Flypaper just last March, quoting from a Tom Loveless Brookings study:

Update: As Eric Osberg pointed out on Flypaper yesterday, Jonathan Gyurko raised some of these same concerns too.

* Note that I've tweaked my calculus since this article was first published on Fordham's Flypaper blog on Monday, partly because of feedback from House Republicans.

Finally, without any institutional bias intended, my nomination for the best prediction of 2011 was from our own Mike Petrilli, who wrote on Flypaper that Cathie Black would be gone by April (she was actually gone by February).

by Terry Ryan, CEO of Bluum, for Thomas B. Fordham's Flypaper Competition or cooperation?

Stephen Parker, who leads the Education and Workforce Committee at the National Governor's Association, shared a list of solutions for state leaders as they implement their ESSA plans, in a new post on the Fordham Institute's Flypaper blog.

Former State Superintendent of Education and current A for Arizona Executive Director Lisa Graham Keegan wrote in the Fordham Institute's Flypaper blog that we need to be cautious with how we regulate charter schools.

Excerpts of his post in Fordham's Flypaper appear below: Let me suggest three principles we should all try to adhere to — and what they could mean for education reform in the months ahead.

The more - problematic aspect of Hess» argument lies with his view (which he expresses both at Flypaper and in a piece appearing today in National Affairs) is that the achievement gap is a matter not worthy of addressing.

Fordham Institute «Flypaper» blog, Noting the need to recognize the role of Catholic schools in the nation's education reform conversation

Here, though, the entry speed is high, but rather than protest with even the smallest of wiggles or an understeering push, the 911 simply digs in and hangs on all the way through as if its wheels are wrapped in flypaper rather than rubber.

Hang a light source over a sticky, disposable surface (flypaper works well) or a bowl of soapy water.

For Michael Krebber, no aspect of the medium is taken for granted as the canvas becomes a kind of sublime flypaper, fixing individual gesture and media grabs.

HUSH lets us in, «Classical Sirens and Japanese Geishas, be prepared to be seduced and discarded like a piece of old flypaper.»

More energy outgoing and incoming will be stuck in the atmosphere longer due to the flypaper effect of reducing the absorption distance.

Similarly the methane stuff is also flypaper for wackos — but more from the horrible - we're - all - gonna - die side (and, you know I'm suspicious they're being set up by the emergency drumbeat used by the gas industry that's already ramping up to drill for gas in the Arctic, particularly in Russia; it's a two - for - one if they can get some kind of credit or payment for «alleviating the methane emergency» and sell the gas too.

«It lets you lay out your brand and presence and become like flypaper for candidates who touch the system — which improves the quality of hiring by more effectively selecting among the available candidates.»