Just at the moment when Caesar's crimsoned corpse settled on the stage came the strident, ripping sound of the stage manager's normally muted backstage telephone.
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Her delicate, sentimental poetic voice — "My hand kept wandering on my lute, / In music, but unconsciously / My pulses throbbed, my heart beat high, / A flush of dizzy ecstasy / Crimsoned my cheek" — hinted at, rather than announced, her erotic life, one that included secret lovers and illegitimate children, as well as a yearslong effort to hide them from the public.
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Protected by Ugandan and Burundian troops, displaced internationals could now join the mission staff, hacks, military officers and contractors who converged at the United Nations Mine Action Service's "Little Kruger Bar" — foreigners with faces crimsoned by alcohol and the sun, many of whom could spend the weeks in country without ever leaving the airport or speaking to a Somali.
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I wiped the blood off the old sword and handed it back to the priest — I did not want the fresh gore to obliterate those sacred spots that crimsoned its brightness one day six hundred years ago …" Then, after spending more than 600 pages savaging all comers and making vicious comments about the inhabitants of the lands he visited, Twain concludes, "travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
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His personal auction record was set by Thousands of Hills in a Crimsoned View (also translated as Landscape in Red), one of his most celebrated works, which sold for (US$46 million) in June 2012.
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Bashō compares the following pair of verses on the topic of colourful autumn leaves: :How like it is to :A midwife's right hand– :Crimson maple leaf! :—Sanboku :"I haven't crimsoned. :Come and look!" So says the dew :On an oak branch :—Dasoku In his commentary, Bashō declares that the first poem "ranks thousands of leagues" above the second.
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Matȟó Wayúhi ("Conquering Bear") ( 1800 – August 19, 1854) was a Brulé Lakota chief who signed the Fort Laramie Treaty (1851). He was killed in 1854 when troops from Fort Laramie entered his encampment to arrest a Sioux who had shot a calf belonging to a Mormon emigrant. All 30 troopers in the army detachment were annihilated, in what would be called the Grattan massacre or "the Mormon Cow War" according to Army Historian S.L.A. Marshall in his book Crimsoned Prairie. Little Thunder took over as chief after his death.
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Li Keran is one of the most valued Chinese artists in art market. In May 2012, his painting Shaoshan, which depicts Mao Zedong's former residence in Shaoshan, was sold by China Guardian Auction for , breaking his previous record of 107 million set by the painting Long March. Wan Shan Hong Bian (Thousands of Hills in a Crimsoned View, or Landscape in Red), Li's 1964 masterpiece inspired by Mao's famous poem "Changsha", was sold at Poly Auction in June 2012 for a personal record price of (US$46 million). It was the largest of seven versions Li painted between 1961 and 1964.
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Informal Translation:The original poem written by Mao Changsha长沙 In the (rhyme) pattern of Qinyuanchun沁园春 > Alone I stand in the autumn cold On the tip of Orange Island, The Xiang > flowing northward; I see a thousand hills crimsoned through By their serried > woods deep-dyed, And a hundred barges vying Over crystal blue waters. Eagles > cleave the air, Fish glide under the shallow water; Under freezing skies a > million creatures contend in freedom. Brooding over this immensity, I ask, > on this bondless land Who rules over man's destiny? I was here with a throng > of companions, Vivid yet those crowded months and years.
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His celebrated painting, Wan Shan Hong Bian (万山红遍, Thousands of Hills in a Crimsoned View, also translated as Landscape in Red),The title from a verse of Mao Zedong's Changsha, to the tune of Qin Yuan Chun (沁园春·长沙) has several translation versions, in Xu Yuanchong's, is "Hill on Hill All in Red, And Wood on Wood in a deep dye" which influenced many Chinese landscape painters, was completed in 1964. During the Cultural Revolution, Li was severely criticized for his signature style, the black landscape paintings. After the end of the revolution, he resumed painting and was appointed as the first president of China National Academy of Painting in 1979. In later life Li had many followers, who formed the "Li School" of the 1980s.
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