Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past year, Sherman has begun to lessen her presence in her work. Her new subject is food. One piece, which she privately calls "Bulimia at the Beach," depicts a repulsive mixture of vegetable soup and crushed cupcakes. Sherman appears only in a reflection in the mirrored sunglasses on the sand. In her most recent photographs, Sherman is completely absent from the tableau. She has surrendered her "canvas" entirely to a mixture of hotdogs and wind-up toys in one, and a mask full of decayed dog food in another...
MAYBE IT'S the change of seasons. Autumn is a time to sober up, to come back from the beach, to atone for actually chuckling at every summer's irrelevant, entertaining comedies. Oscar season--all seven months of it--are the perfect time for critics and studios to work off the guilt they've accrued over the summer...
...started to make repairs by appearing "in Atlantic City a hundred times, Vegas 200 times, Miami Beach a million times." Then came ventures in theater and film. A comedy, A Teaspoon Every Four Hours, featuring Jackie Mason and $100,000 of his money, lasted one night on Broadway. He produced and acted in the celluloid bomb The Stoolie, "another effort in my series of efforts to get somewhere." Through all those trials and travels on the road, Mason, 56, never married "because I didn't want to be intensely involved with someone I knew I wouldn't see a week...
...about 1:30 a.m., German torpedo boats slipped into Lyme Bay and launched their weapons against the convoy. The toll: 749 Americans dead, four times the number that perished on Utah Beach. Most were raw recruits who had never seen the enemy. For the sake of wartime secrecy, news of the tragedy was withheld. The dead were never honored with an official monument...
That neglect has long troubled Ken Small, a local innkeeper. Small learned of the disaster in the early 1970s, after finding American coins and ammunition washed up on the beach, and he began lobbying the U.S. and British governments for a memorial. This week a simple but official plaque will be dedicated to the dead of Exercise Tiger. "I am not a religious man," says Small, "but I felt something driving me on to do this...