Living the life of bar and dining room and bedroom, and foreign languages, just a few miles from my father's cottage and overgrown garden, which had for so long been for me a place of gloom, of tarnished ceilings and pictures blurred behind grimy glass, a place of a life lived out and now without possibility.
As has often been the case with Palmer – to whom attachment of the adjective "mercurial" is now a cliche – the picture blurs on closer focus.
Here, the picture blurs.Until recently, it was common to speak of an Upper Palaeolithic revolution in human affairs what Jared Diamond, of the University of California at Los Angeles, called the Great Leap Forward.
By incorporating real objects into his picture, he blurred the distinction between painting and sculpture and opened up a whole new area for art making.
Yet, when it comes to funding, the picture is blurred.
It was an old picture, surely, blurred in its newspaper reproduction.
But Reed was a natural leader who intuitively understood that when nuance is missed, the big picture becomes blurred and the opportunity for compromise is lost.
The picture was blurred, however, by growth in some blue-collar, middle-income professions like electricians and plumbers, and several white-collar areas like computer support technicians.
In the 1990's, however, the picture became blurred by two population explosions: one of telecommuters who did some work at home; the other of temporary employees who worked part time or under contract.
However, unlike Tinder, their profile picture is blurred so that you can't see exactly what they look like, the idea being to keep the focus on the chat and getting to know the person — not the blatantly superficial.
