Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CLEAR PICTURES: FIRST LOVES, FIRST GUIDES...
...loner by temperament and circumstance -- his family was constantly relocating from one drab Piedmont town to another -- Price describes the boy he was as "a born witness or spy . . . helplessly fascinated by the ritual power of language." In Clear Pictures he comes across as a precocious Dixie dandy, worrying earnestly about God and masturbation, and toadying up to visiting artistes like the great contralto Marian Anderson by sending them portraits he had sketched from publicity stills...
...Fallows starts writing about himself. Fallows, a former Crimson editor and the Washington editor of The Atlantic Monthly, is an interesting person. The stories he tells about his parents moving to California when he was a child would make fascinating material for an autobiography. But it's not really clear why they are in this book, the ostensible purpose of which is to show how America differs culturally from Japan...
...access to the Persian Gulf. There were discussions, but no final accord, on reopening a gas pipeline from Iran to Soviet Transcaucasia, which was shut down in 1980. Moscow also announced that it would aid Iran in "strengthening ((its)) defense capability," but provided no details. The U.S. has made clear its opposition to large-scale shipments of Soviet arms to Iran; any such supplies would be viewed with even greater alarm by Iraq, which was backed by the Soviets during its eight-year war with Iran...
Ultraviolet rays have been implicated in the development of cataracts, a clouding of the eye lens. The rays chemically alter the lens' proteins, making them stick together and turning a clear lens murky. For protection during long exposure to the sun, doctors recommend wearing sunglasses, especially those that completely block ultraviolet, and wide-brimmed hats...