Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several months and who, according to the police, belongs to the Church of God, a Protestant evangelical sect. Some reports said that Rohan spoke of a dream in which God commanded him to clear a site in the compound on which to build a Jewish temple. Anxious to damp down the incendiary emotions aroused by the fire, the Israelis held a press conference on the Jewish sabbath-an unprecedented peacetime action-to announce the arrest. Police emphasized that Jerusalem Arabs provided the most important clues by giving them a description of the man and a vest that had been torn...
...novel opens, Martha, in her thirties and a white refugee from colonial Africa, is wandering through a dislocated London where cellars are damp and paint is blistering and wood is rotting. In evoking a gray, totalitarian world, and in showing how, no matter what minor fluctuations the government undergoes, the poor never escape that world, this novel reflects Orwell's paternal influence. Politics, particularly the opposition politics of the Labour Party and those groups to its left, become the novel's initial concern. Yet, for Mrs. Lessing, politics are now something of a dead end. She sardonically delights in unearthing...
...Damp Light. Oblivious to fashion and personal fortune, Diebenkorn has often detoured when a less determined painter might have rested on a comfortable plateau of achievement. Under the influence of Clyfford Still and the late David Park, he plunged headlong into Abstract Expressionism while a student at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Then, in 1955, he found himself in something of a bind, as he describes it, bored with splashing color around with the total freedom that abstraction allows. He felt a sudden need for "a kind of constraint," and found it by painting the human...
...went until two years ago when, just as casually as it had appeared on Diebenkorn's canvases, the figure disappeared. In its place was a bold structural architecture and a damp soft light suffused with the shrimp reds and spring greens characteristic of Ocean Park in Santa Monica, where he now lives. In his latest exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum, his "Ocean Park" series appears to be at first glance totally abstract. But soon the rudiments of a surfside landscape begin to emerge. Diebenkorn admits that a drive past the beach in the morning may affect...
...city's air has also become destructive. Venetians customarily heat their homes with soft coal that is released into the air before it has fully burned. Added to this are similar fuel wastes from vaporetti (ferryboats) exhausts and industrial smokestacks. The combined residues, often trapped by the damp Venetian climate, form a heavy sulfurous blanket over the city...