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Word: cliff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bruins play a very strong very aggressive type of soccer." coach Bruce Munro reflected. Brown coach Cliff Stevenson is stoking that strong desire with visions of the Ivy crown...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Ivy Title at Stake Booters Will Try Today to Finish Brown's Six-Year Ivy Soccer Reign | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

People who had not talked with each other all evening introduced themselves and immediately befriended whoever was sitting near them. A scrawny boy named Cliff was sitting in front of me holding onto my feet. After telling me twice that he came from Maine but had been living in D.C. for the last two weeks, he admitted that he wanted to leave. "I want to get out of here. but I just can't desert-I don't know how I got here in the first place-I was going to spend the week-end in Maine...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Washington After Dark | 11/13/1969 | See Source »

...shore from Santa Monica to Malibu just because I like the drive. That area, along the shore, is my idea of California. It has the free impermanence of the place. The beach houses stand wall to wall on the sand, weather-beaten dwellings right next to opulent villas. The cliff on the other side is raw, crumbling dirt, and it periodically dumps its houses right down on the road. I get the feeling that the whole state may subside into the ocean some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: CANDIDE CAMERA: IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Another impressive scene is the one in which a truck has to be turned around on a wooden platform hanging over the edge of a cliff. The cutting and soundtrack of this scene prove Clouzot to be a master at editing and timing suspense scenes. (Yvcs Montand is the hero of this scene...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: The MoviegoerThe Wages of Fear | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

...called the "push-pull" theory of colors in tension-and practiced it to perfection. De Kooning restored the name of action to artistic thought, slashing at his canvases with inspired passion. David Smith took the grand gesture to sculpture, mounting one stainless steel shaft upon another in marvels of cliff-hanger balance. Later artists like Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland and Frank Stella solidified and emboldened color and clipped its ragged edges, while Morris Louis thinned his paints to the consistency of water and sent them streaming over unprimed canvas in free-flow ing rainbows. Within silent, seemingly impenetrable monochromes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From the Brink, Something Grand | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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