The pastel chalks with their softness and gentleness of colour gave his pictures a marvellous new lightness and an almost unexpected beauty.

彩色粉笔所具有的那种轻淡柔和的色彩赋予他的画一种新颖而奇妙的明快鲜亮，几乎是出乎意料的美。

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From the Chrysler Building in New York to the pastel hotels of Miami Beach and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Art Deco reshaped architecture in the years before World War II -- though the term wasn't coined until the 1960s, drawn from the name of the 1925 Paris decorative-arts exhibition that popularized the style.

WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand

But OLPC News is now telling us that there's a few new updates from everyone's favorite pastel-colored lappy.

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