Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THEY marched out of those ads that Henry Ford runs for his cars. They came from the families that Polaroid tells about at Christmas time, a little overweight and a little overhappy. They arrived in Hart, Schaffner & Marx, with burnt orange by Arrow. Their jaws seemed firmer, teeth bigger and whiter, complexions clearer, shoulders wider, backs straighter than the Democrats', and they had handshakes likes vises. Wandering across the convention floor was like strolling down Main Street with some side excursions up its suburban companion, Elm Street. There was the clean fragrance of Mennen's Skin Bracer and the soft...
...have been shot in doorways of their homes or found tied and gagged, with bullets through their heads, in the trunks of burnt-out cars. Most have been mutilated or tortured. David McGlenaghan, a mentally retarded youth of 15, was killed when gunmen invaded his home and shot him as he lay sleeping. Harry Russell, 23, a male nurse from Carrick-Fergus on the outskirts of Belfast, was found shot through the head in a back alley, covered with torture marks and stab wounds, including a T for "Traitor" burned into his skin...
...week's end, the South Vietnamese task force at Quang Tri was inching its way forward, with the help of U.S. air strikes, toward the center of Quang Tri city. One such strike, Hillenbrand reported, transformed a thickly wooded enemy bunker position into a cluster of burnt-out tree stumps, "as if some triple-strength forest fire had passed that way." If past performance is any guide, the North Vietnamese will probably put up a mettlesome resistance before withdrawing-and the NVA still has plenty of long-range artillery in the hills to the west of the city. Nonetheless...
...desserts are flan and caramel custard. The flan Iruna ($.40), a plain custard with a chip of cinnamon bark and slice of lemon peel, is delicate and pure. The caramel of the creme caramel ($.40) is always just situated on that sweet-burnt edge which is so good in contract to the rich bland custard. Unusual teas--orange spice has an exotic aroma--and coffee are a hot and welcome coda to this simply cooked, but subtle meal. For care, informality, and consistent excellence, there is none better than the Iruna...
...gouged, broken and battered: the act of painting the human image becomes an assault. Rhetorical defects plague his work. But its aim-which is to use the human figure as a unique metaphor for a sense of crisis and cultural exhaustion-is large; and at their best, as in Burnt Man IV, 1961, Golub's stiff monsters become monuments of scar tissue, celebrating man's minimal function: to survive...