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...about the Guiness heir, son of a Beer peer, dying in his Lotus elan, sad waste of youth, but comic in its utter meaningless. The singer turns on and the song turns more dreamlike, ushering forth a complex metaphor to rank with Dylan's best. "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire/ And though the holes were rather small/ They had to count them all..."--this refers to Scotland Yard's search for bodies buried in a moor. The method they used was to sink poles in the earth and sniff the ends for the odor of decomposing flesh. "Now they...
What made the marriage even more of a surprise was that, according to the records of the Wayne County clerk, it had been celebrated by Jesuit Thomas Blackburn, chaplain at the university. Although none of the parties to the unusual wedding would talk about it, the evidence was clear that Father Cross, who had been on leave since January teaching at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, came back to Detroit last May to marry Miss Renaud, a nurse who had voluntarily left the Sisters of Mercy three years ago. Still refusing to confirm or deny his marriage, Father Cross...
...skillful rococo colorist named Joseph Blackburn arrived from England. He immediately became an established painter in Boston and his work had a profound influence on Copley's portraiture. Blackburn's colors were light and gentle but the elegance of Blackburn's style drew out of Copley the sensitivity as a colorist which characterizes all of his later work. Though Blackburn had a great influence on Copley, Copley's individuality as a painter was never obscured; the characteristic sharp contrasts of light and dark (chiarascuro effects), the bold, saturated colors, and the free, heavy impasto (paint thickness) persist throughout most...
...took apart a V.C. regiment on the Van Thuong peninsula south of Chu Lai last August, two destroyers and a cruiser of Task Force 77 bombarded V.C. bunkers, blasted to pieces a Red company that tried to escape over the beach. Fact is, Seventh Fleet Commander Admiral Paul P. Blackburn's floating artillery can make life miserable-and hazardous-for the V.C. up to fifteen miles from the coast, and his screen of smaller craft on patrol duty in "Operation Market Time" has sharply limited V.C. gunrunning by boat along the shore...
...this was done with little public fanfare, but U.S. military men could not conceal their satisfaction. Said Seventh Fleet Commander Paul Blackburn of the North Vietnamese: "Those people are not getting much sleep up there...