Word: beach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invited to two cotillions on the same evening. When Violeta was 19, she was introduced to an intense-looking young man from Managua whose family owned La Prensa. Pedro Joaquin Chamorro inspected Violeta's deeply sunned face and nicknamed her "Morenita," the dark one. He invited her to the beach. Unmoved by his instant attentions, his city ways and his presumption, she declined. He persisted for months, even after she told him, "For God's sake, leave me in peace." But when he complied, says Violeta, "I found I missed him." Finally, having invited her to Mass, he carved...
Seabrook opponents maintain that the plant is not safe and that the congested beach tourist area around it could not be evacuated safely in case of an accident...
...contained hardly any more people than it would on a pleasant Sunday afternoon. The difference was that the 20,000 to 30,000 students still there were camped out on tarps covered by makeshift tents of clear plastic or by clusters of umbrellas, which made it look like a beach outing in places. But living on the square's paving stones was no day at the beach. Downwind, the aroma of urine was overwhelming...
...work often depicts connections, some obvious and others apparent only on close inspection. A photograph in Kyoto, Japan in 1977, for example, illustrates a parallelism between people and animals. It depicts a woman scratching her back as a dog does the same. In a 1975 photograph taken at Daytona Beach, Florida, the connection is not so obvious. Erwitt juxtaposes shapes to create compositions that are not readily apparent as real objects. However, detailed study of the photograph reveals a subtle relationship between the shape of apartment facades and a bird perched upon a street lamp...
...across the waters to Western Samoa, a relatively forgotten independent island that has four times as many people as its American namesake, but no congressional support. In Western Samoa, people speak English in the gentle, sea-lapping cadences of the South Pacific; in American, they favor the twang of Beach Boys and Valley Girls. In Western, residents play the genteel old colonial game of lawn bowling; in American, they converge on a twelve-lane bowling alley. And in Western, the roads are lined with pigs, while in American, they are crowded with Jeep Cherokees. Although the 76 square miles...