Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest novel, which traces the history from 1889 to the present of a Jewish family, an Italian family and a Chinese family, all late-nineteenth century immigrants to America and to San Francisco. The book is raw and robust, like the expanding country it describes. Fast's prose is clean; his sentences are short; the pages are dense with human drama. His characters are carefully developed, realistic because they are unconscious of their roles in history. The Immigrants draws the reader into its drama, leads him to read without regard for real time, and intoxicates him with the life...
...Said Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who had inspected the Israeli forces: "I am keeping my fingers crossed, praying that [the ceasefire] will hold. But if the P.L.O. orders its units to open fire again or does not achieve a quick, solid and satisfying solution, we will return and clean up the area...
...white and black, without tints or complementaries or tones-in works like Mondrian's Color Composition A, 1917, or Van Does-burg's majestic but unbuilt design of 1923 for a university hall-refer to no ideology of the state. The aim of such work is to clean the mind and purge emotion; to construct a paradise of fundamental shape. Instead of the "handwriting" of brush marks, the clear flat surface; instead rf the knotted shadows of expressionism, the sunny rectangle-color as disembodied energy. Hygiene is an obsessive theme of constructivism: a design like J J Pieter...
...literary salvation is tier sense of wonder and intensity. Sometimes she is ostentatious, as in her description of the Pacific coastline, "the fringey edge where elements meet and realms mingle, where time and eternity spatter each other with foam." But at their best, Dillard's sentences have a clean, penetrating edge. "The higher Christian churches," she writes, "come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism. . . as though they knew what they were doing ... If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect...
...Clean Sweep...