Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moldings, mullions and floorboards in The Invisible World, 1954, is rendered with scrupulous, not to say stolid exactitude: it is a real room looking on a real sea in (one imagines) some provincial resort on the Belgian coast. But what is that boulder doing there with every pore and crack of its surface emulated in Magritte's slow, gray pigment to remind us of its equal reality? It is intolerable: no metaphor provides an exit, no rational explanation will do, while the very technique of Magritte's drawing and painting keeps denying the presence of fantasy...
When hockey and football can't seem to crack the old Eli bastion in New Haven, leave the cracking to us, Tom Sanders might tell you. His Crimson cagers did everything but maul the walls of Gothic Payne Whitney Gymnasium with a battering ram last night, strewing the hardwood with shattered Yale strategies and sweeping to an easy 87-65 victory...
Armed with my peanuts, I walked away from the center of the village. Two-story adobe structures lined the street. These were not the miserable hovels that one sees massed in the slums of La Paz or Cochabamba. They were solid, and only occasionally did one see a crack in the wall. And, in contrast to the piles of garbage that collect in the urban neighborhoods, here the streets were virtually spotless. I stopped at one house where a man was digging at some newly-sprouted crops that popped out of well-groomed furrows. In the small yard adjoining...
Although a demon worker, Haig does not crack the same whip that Haldeman did, and he does not have Haldeman's intimacy with Nixon. The President has come to rely most heavily for advice upon Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, the man who lost his standing with newsmen by repeatedly "misspeaking" the facts about Watergate. Ziegler's rise has baffled most of Nixon's senior aides and horrified Senator Barry Goldwater, who told the Christian Science Monitor last month: "I just can't believe that he would listen to Ziegler. That in my opinion would be something...
...fact, during the golden age of American railroading, roughly between 1870 and the late 1930s, passenger trains were both functional and elegant. In other countries railroads still offer an unbeatable combination of comfort, safety and reliability. France's crack expresses, like the Mistral, provide sumptuous meals, barbershops, bookstores, boutiques and business offices, all at speeds of up to 125 m.p.h. Japan's famed "bullet" trains, whooshing along on cushioned roadbeds, treat the passenger with geisha-like solicitude. When the English Channel tunnel is completed, le chemin de fer will whisk travelers from London to Paris...