Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...escaped the onrushing tide by ducking behind his bar. As he ran for the street, the glass wall behind the bar collapsed. By the time he found his wife at the nearby restaurant where she worked as a waitress, their new car was gone-washed away into the creek bed...
...does not exhaust Matisse's achievement as découpeur, it offers an unstinted sense of buoyancy. Matisse liked to talk about the "beneficent radiation" of his color, of its power to heal, and he would prop up his paintings, like sun lamps, around the bed of a sick friend. In the National Gallery, in the sublime, undulating leaf patterns in green, blue and yellow that Matisse designed for the stained-glass windows of the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, this radiation is almost enough to give the viewer...
...either the guerrillas or the government if he fails to cooperate. He can be sentenced to death for recruiting or encouraging guerrillas; if he reports them, on the other hand, they may well kill him. One villager, known to be a government informer, was pinned by guerrillas to a bed of straw; his young son was forced to set it on fire...
...tennis, Silverman was found under a blanket on the beach, his eyes transfixed by a small, battery-powered TV. Once, in a state of great excitement, he called CBS Executive Perry Lafferty into his office to watch a scene in a soap opera. "It was a routine hospital bed scene, with the man standing beside the bed of the woman he loves," remembers Lafferty. "But I looked over at Freddie, and tears were rolling down his cheeks...
Fortunately the author has a genuine gift for characterization. Grijpstra is something of a slob mismarried to another slob of grotesque dimension who stares at TV all day and wears innumerable pin curlers to bed. De Gier is a romantic who is too realistic to marry. He prefers the company of his flute and his neurotic Siamese cat, Oliver...