2014年1月19日 星期日

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Nestlé opens the first Kit Kat store in Japan, selling limited-edition flavors like “Sublime Bitter,” and “Right sweetness for adults.”

A group of islands in the East China Sea that both Japan and China claim to control. American officials are worried that a collision or other event in the area could rapidly escalate tensions.

News Analysis

In the East China Sea, a Far Bigger Test of Power Looms

By DAVID E. SANGER

In an era when the Obama administration has been focused on new forms of conflict, the dangerous contest suddenly erupting in the East China Sea seems almost a throwback to the Cold War.


This elegant soap opera about masters and their servants in the twilight of the British Empire was a shameless throwback to “Upstairs Downstairs” and “The Forsyte Saga.” Season 2 is in many ways as captivating and addictive as the first, but this time around, the series comes off as a shameless throwback to itself.

The Born Identity


When I heard that Huggies had begun to sell a “limited-edition jeans diaper,” and that its bigger rival Pampers was offering a new diaper line carrying the imprimatur of the fashion designer Cynthia Rowley, it struck me as a throwback.


The noun throwback has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
Synonym: atavist
Meaning #2: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
Synonyms: atavism, reversion

The adjective throwback has one meaning:
Meaning #1: characteristic of an atavist
Synonym: atavistic

🔷Pablo Picasso said the ethnic primitivism evoked in him "to liberate an utterly original artistic style of compelling,even savage force”. Pablo Picasso viewed this Fang Ngil mask from Gabon in Paris in 1906 and after that,from 1906 to 1909, he worked extensively in a style strongly influenced by African sculpture.Its called Picasso's Afro period and his masterpice "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" is the best example.
The Ngil mask originated from an agrarian/hunting group,Fang people in Gabon,Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon in Africa.They are crafted from wood,covered with a white clay,with an oval shape,elongated chin and nose.
Art world was shocked and angered.Henri Matisse called Picasso's painting a hoax , 'an attempt to paint the 4th dimension'.
The French painter André Derain stated: "One day We shall find Pablo has hanged himself behind his great canvas!"
Pablo Picasso Picasso


thrówbàck[thrów・bàck]

[名]((通例単数形))
1 投げ返し.
2 あと戻り, 逆流, 逆行, (昔のものの)再来, 復活((to ...));阻止.
3 (…の)昔からあったもの, 遺物((to ...)).
4 《映画》切り返し.

noun

  • a reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic:the eyes could be an ancestral throwback
  • a person or thing having the characteristics of a former time:a lot of his work is a throwback to the fifties

limited edition

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American Primitive

Look at him there in his stovepipe hat,
His high-top shoes, and his handsome collar;
Only my Daddy could look like that,
And I love my Daddy like he loves his Dollar.

The screen door bangs, and it sounds so funny--
There he is in a shower of gold;
His pockets are stuffed with folding money,
His lips are blue, and his hands feel cold.

He hangs in the hall by his black cravat,
The ladies faint, and the children holler:
Only my Daddy could look like that,
And I love my Daddy like he loves his Dollar.

William Jay Smith的這首詩用了領巾cravat 所以primitive 不是原始人
The cravat is a neckband, the forerunner of the modern tailored necktie and bow tie, originating from 17th-century Croatia.[2]



primitive

Pronunciation: /ˈprɪmɪtɪv/

Definition of primitive


adjective

  • 1 relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of something:primitive mammals Primitive Germanic
  • relating to or denoting a preliterate, non-industrial society or culture characterized by simple social and economic organization:primitive people
  • (of behaviour or emotion) apparently originating in unconscious needs or desires and unaffected by objective reasoning:the primitive responses we share with many animals
  • of or denoting a simple, naive style of art that deliberately rejects sophisticated artistic techniques: the Fauves saw primitive art as a liberating force
  • 2 very basic or unsophisticated in terms of comfort, convenience, or efficiency:the accommodation at the camp was a bit primitive
  • 3 not developed or derived from anything else:primitive material of the universe
  • Linguistics denoting a word, base, or root from which another is historically derived.
  • Mathematics (of an algebraic or geometric expression) from which another is derived, or which is not itself derived from another.
  • 4 Biology (of a part or structure) in the first or early stage of formation or growth; rudimentary. See also primitive streak.

noun

  • 1a person belonging to a preliterate, non-industrial society: reports of travellers and missionaries described contemporary primitives
  • 2a pre-Renaissance painter, or one who imitates the pre-Renaissance style.
  • an artist deliberately employing a simple, naive style: the Catalan primitives
  • a painting by a primitive artist, or an object in a primitive style: Santa Fe style antiques and Mexican primitives Ohio primitives such as treenware utensils
  • 3 Linguistics a word, base, or root from which another is historically derived.
  • Mathematics an algebraic or geometric expression from which another is derived; a curve of which another is the polar or reciprocal.
  • Computing any of a set of basic geometric shapes which may be generated in computer graphics: the program includes a complete set of drawing primitives


Derivatives




primitively

adverb



primitiveness

noun

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'original, not derivative'): from Old French primitif, -ive, from Latin primitivus 'first of its kind', from primus 'first'

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