Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their story, said Jacobsen, began to unravel when Connally remembered that some of the bills he had paid back had been circulated after 1971. (They bore the signature of George Shultz, Connally's successor as Treasury Secretary.) The pair tried to replace them with older bills but, if Jacobsen's story is true, Connally somehow messed up. When...
...might ask," the catalogue begins with unwonted nervousness, "why look at Monet again?" Indeed, no artists have been more exposed than the impressionists; but the day when Claude Monet, their leader, could become a bore is (happily) not yet. Apart from the delectability of his work, it becomes increasingly clear that Monet, whose painting life began in the 1860s and spanned almost 70 years, was as fundamental to 20th century art as Cézanne. Bonnard, Pollock and Rothko, not to mention every color-field painter who came out of an art school, lie cradled in Monet's woven...
...youth, the effort to reconcile the truth of outdoor painting with his ambition to make "important pictures" on a Salon scale bore odd results, one of which is Women in the Garden. He set up this vast canvas (over 8 ft. high) in his garden and even had a trench dug to rest it in so that he could paint the top without having to teeter on a stool. Its tonal contrasts between the green gloom of the trees and the crisp white of the girls' dresses in the bleaching sun are a manifesto of early impressionism...
...Mekong River. Inside, a line of hollow-eyed mothers clutching half-dead infants waited patiently to enter the World Vision clinic. One baby's head hung limply to the side, eyes closed and mouth agape, its body swaddled in a green-and-white T shirt that bore the words HELLO, DARLING. Said Clinic Director Carl B. Harris of Washington, D.C.: "It's not only the babies who are starving. Many of the mothers have hemoglobin levels below...
...Harvard team, which was victorious for the eight time this season, bore no resemblance to the squad which had played to pitifully in its recent contests. From the dazzling red road uniforms for the great all-around team performance the Crimson proved that when it wants to it can play on equal terms with any Ivy League team--Penn excluded...