Word: cumulus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eventually the hills fade and the woods become piney, and you can tell you're near the Gulf of Mexico when the cumulus clouds start to pile up on horizon. The Gulf Coast is part desolate and soulless tourist strip, cheap motels and nightclubs where groups like Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts play, and part fishing villages and marsh and swamp. The swamps give way to Lake Pont-chartrain presently, and the Louisiana Superdome starts to loom on the horizon. Beyond the Mississipi and the alluvial silt of the Coast, Houston beckons...
Cloud street-A row of cumulus clouds marking thermals...
...most exciting comparisons is between Georgia O'Keefe's oil from 1953 at "Abiquiu Trees" and Strand's "Dunes near Abiquiu." (1931 that shows us how both artists were captured of the poetry of the New Mexican landscape. Her pink stand intensify the pastel puffiness of Strand's cumulus clouds blowing over the dunes. While Strand has emphasized the staccato patterns of vegetation almost mirroring the clouds above, O'Keffe isolates two trees and focuses on their branches and on their dominant relation to the environment, a closeup rather than a landscape. (O'Keefe was married to Alfred Stieglitz...
...enough social mobility to climb from a truck stop waitress job to the high dive of the Las Vegas Starlite where Brad her boyfriend is shooting stills of her ample thighs and immense copacabanas. And everyone in the theatre was a 64 yr old Man with jowls like pink cumulus clouds, sitting by himself, including the older Jew from the Charles Discount Store whom I noticed across the aisle who seemed not to be watching Joe clutching Julie's hard earned tips in the back of the Diner so much as wondering how, in so few years, a Jewish Family...