Word: boyness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...retreat to his studio near the old family home where he was brought up. He hates to be watched in his studio-except by dogs and kids. The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum in Rockland, Me., has recently bought an essay by Troy Kaichen, a literate Gushing boy, who knows Wyeth well. It describes Wyeth at work...
Artist composes 80-page Shining tribute made up of nothing but the words "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy...
...historical romance-mystery story follows the arrogant Scottish painter Stewart Jameson and Fanny Easton, a fallen woman from a powerful Boston family who disguises herself as a defiant boy named Francis Weston...
...campaign trail, during which he tried to relate to the concerns of small-town life, Obama may find it a relief to return to his city roots. He did a decent job of fitting in at local diners and Tastee Freezes. But every so often, the city boy would break loose. One November evening in 2007, Obama stood in a school gym in Grundy Center, Iowa (pop. 2,596), while a woman explained that she didn't think he could protect the country as well as a Republican. "Don't think that I care any less than Rudy Giuliani...
...paradoxical sense of relief that came upon us, yet everyone, including the injured boy's family, was thankful that the off-target rocket was not a forewarning of another larger strike. Thousands of other families in Gaza have already been subjected to the horrors of destruction and displacement. We have seen the results of the vicious slaughter of scores of children after the Israelis hit the United Nations school where they had sought refuge. A few broken bones are far better than having skulls smashed or chests torn open. That's how we see it. That's our logic...