Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make color pictures that are almost three-dimensional in effect. The pictures, some shot from above 20,000 ft., are breathtaking in clarity and detail; in a shot of the legendary Piz Palü, fresh marks of alpinists' climbing irons are clearly visible. Swiss Panorama ranges from cloud-topped peaks and neatly patterned farmland to well-preserved medieval communities and bustling modern cities like Basel and Zurich. Schulthess has a taste for fierce, melodramatic peaks, but even his photographs cannot stifle the ultimate feeling that Switzerland always evokes; happily, it remains at bottom what Hermann Hesse said of Appenzell...
...pizza, filled a TV room at Emory University in Atlanta. At the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, nuclear-freeze activists reserved a set for Spanish-speaking viewers and provided a translator. In an unnerving coincidence, a blackout darkened 3,000 homes in Gloucester, Mass., just as the mushroom cloud filled the screen. Power was restored shortly, but not before hundreds of residents felt the chill of their worst imaginings...
...brutality and bumptiousness of football were dismissed as fit subjects here 90 years ago by Willa Cather, the beautiful writer from Red Cloud, as cherished an alumnus as Vince Ferragamo, the handsome quarterback from Los Angeles. She admired the game as "one of the few survivals of the heroic," and it pleased her that football "arouses only the most simple and normal emotions" and "offers no particular inducement to betting." She wrote: "Of course it is brutal. So is Homer brutal, and Tolstoi; that is, they all alike appeal to the crude savage instincts of men. We have not outgrown...
...Pacino's. Most of the large cast is fine; Michelle Pfeiffer is better. The cool, druggy Wasp woman who does not fit into Tony's world, Pfeiffer's Elvira is funny and pathetic, a street angel ready at any whim to float away on another cocaine cloud...
Perception is reality. Could Plato himself have said it better in his speculations about the imaginary cave where prisoners see life as a series of shadows flickering on the walls? Wasn't that what Shakespeare meant when he had Prospero conclude his pageant by declaring that "the cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples" would all dissolve, for "we are such stuff as dreams are made on"? Trompe l'oeil (trickery of the eye) is the artistic term for it, and Italy is full of palaces with flat ceilings painted to look vaulted...