Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although he is not altogether comfortable in the sudden glare of the limelight, Skutnik admits that fame has begun to grow on him. His wife says that he might even feel a twinge of regret when it passes. "When things started to calm down a few days ago, he said to me, sort of half joking: 'Gee, they've forgotten me already...
...seeing steam spouting from the stacks of the Robert E. Ginna nuclear-power plant. So they were not excited last week when the 470-MW plant, which serves 320,000 customers in communities near Lake Ontario, once again began sending white plumes into the frigid air. But their calm turned to alarm when cars from local law-enforcement agencies arrived to block the plant's gates, and word spread that county officials were dusting off plans to evacuate surrounding residential areas. After twelve years of accident-free operation, the Ginna plant had sprung a leak and spewed out radioactive...
...Because of his aspirations to sublimity, it is difficult to assimilate Pollock-as some authorities have wished to do-to the traditions of the School of Paris. The French painter he most admired, the surrealist André Masson, was set against the pre-eminently French virtues of lucidity, calm and mésure. An extraordinary number of strands are braided and involved in Pollock's work, from Indian sand painting to the theory of Jungian archetypes, from Zen calligraphy to El Greco, from American jazz and Western landscape to the doctrines of various occult religions...
...rocks beside rivers. In the depths of Calcutta's desperate poverty, she was ushered into Mother Teresa's presence and found herself awestruck: "That face is so gorgeous, with its millions of lines. She held my hands and looked at me with those eyes of strength, calm, determination, wisdom. In a dark time, she is truly a light." Except for her personal expenses, Stratas is donating her Met Bohème fees to Mother Teresa...
...Andre's sheer determination to spread his gospel of the surreal eggs Wally on to respond. It's hard to know exactly what sets him off. Perhaps, he perceives in Andre's calm mellifluous tone a lack of confidence that gives him leeway to speak up loudly and clearly. And that's just how Wally responds, with a diatribe of his own, against the unnecessarily highbrow. The world for him is real, with cockroaches, and stale coffee, and if the cockroaches stay out of his coffee, he'll be happy. He huffs and sputters, but he says what...