Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measures. Rauh insisted that Rocke feller was unfit for office because of his wealth. "A vote for confirmation," said Rauh, "is a vote for a [potential] President who will never spend a day with out a serious conflict of interest and whose White House will exist under a dark cloud of suspicion...
...important for a girl to be a virgin when she marries." ∎ The Indian nations were in disarray. The Yakima were war-whooping over the seating arrangements, a Lummi complained about the food, and Sacheen Littlefeather was not there. On top of everything, there was Old Thunder Cloud himself, Marlon Brando, chiding the socialite nation for deserting its red brother. This uncomfortable powwow took place last week on a posh Manhattan reservation where Brando was chairman of a gala starring Guest of Honor Ethel Kennedy and Entertainers Harry Belafonte, Arlo Guthrie and Buffy Sainte-Marie to raise money...
Marilyn Blitvich St. Cloud, Minn...
...speed. Peter Revson's helmet was painted into a big toothy smile, but he died setting a track record in South America. So far there have been no accidents this weekend. All at once I hear the crickets' song. The heat is over. From the bog floats a black cloud of smoke. It is feasting. Down from the sky plunge Navy parachutists, trailing red, white and blue chutes...
...last story, The Cloud, possesses one of Fowles' faults?a facile, painterly dreaminess?without his vigorous grasp on the facts that make illusion matter. Fowles' themes in all these elegant stories are the surprise of passion v. the safety of tradition, abstraction v. spontaneity, and more broadly, the secrets of art (including Fowles' own art) played against a fictive "reality" that represents merely his own deeper lamination of imagined life. Fowles, like any other storyteller, tells his tale?and then has the shimmering perversity to let his readers know that maybe he was lying all the time, or that life...