Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choice seats in Harvard Stadium last night came with an added touch of comfort--a red cushion emblazoned with the 350th logo. But Harvard's scheme for distributing the tushions seemed a bit beneath the dignity of those privileged enough to sit in the exclusive "Crimaon Circle...
Julia Ward Howe heard marching, singing soldiers beneath her Willard window and wrote the words for The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Walt Whitman aimed a sharp arrow at what he saw in the Willard...
...fidelity to the people he painted. As the artist put it last week, "The more I'm with an object -- whether it's a model or a piece of the country -- the more I begin to see what I've been blind to. You start to get what's beneath it. You see deeper within it." He used Christina and her younger brother Alvaro as subjects from 1940 to 1968; Anna and Karl Kuerner, Wyeth's neighbors in Chadds Ford, from 1948 to 1979; teenage Siri Erickson, another Cushing resident, from 1967 to 1972. The paintings of her were also...
...that end, the monolith has proved extremely effective. One week before the Wall went up, 2,000 people fled to the West in a single day. But over the next 25 years, only about 5,000 East Germans successfully made the journey, some scaling the Wall, others tunneling beneath it. Countless others failed, and often died, in their escape attempts...
...production's metaphoric intentions are evident the moment the audience sees the backdrop. A lurid, scrawled red line divides a vista of white-capped mountains and a blue sky with clouds from a rough black collage below, inset with garbage cans, pails, tires and a metal ladder -- the dregs beneath the American Dream. Superimposed are slides announcing the year as the play moves forward from the Crash into World War II and briefly into 1968 and beyond. The cast of 19 enact dozens of the dispossessed, from a desperate Southern sheriff no longer receiving a paycheck to college boys afraid...