Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...untreated sewage that befouls the fabled Mediterranean. Pollution threatens the rich, teeming life of the ocean and renders the waters off once famed beaches about as safe to bathe in as an unflushed toilet. By far the greatest, or at least the most visible, damage has been done near land, which means that the savaging of the seas vitally affects human and marine life. Polluted waters and littered beaches can take jobs from fisherfolk as well as food from consumers, recreation from vacationers and business from resorts. In dollars, pollution costs billions; the cost in the quality of life...
...earliest paintings in this show, like the portrait of his grandmother from 1900-02, are timid, earnest homages to Corot and Boudin. In 1905 he saw what Matisse and Derain had done at Collioure, under Van Gogh's spell, with the hot colors and white light of the Midi. Prodded by his friends Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy, he began to paint the colder northern light of Antwerp in a fauve style. But in this early work there is a sense of discomfort. Braque did not draw very well, and, as he lacked the graphic fluency of his mentors...
...creamy filling and assess a student's attitude. Things have changed since Kumin's European apprenticeship began some 50 years ago. "In the old system," he says, "they made you get out of bed at 2 in the morning and go back to the kitchen if you had done something wrong. Now there's a regulated school system...
...recalls, "no stage, anywhere, it don't matter the amount of people in the audience, no stage has made me feel like the Opry, has scared me as bad. By the time I finished my first two songs and came off, I was literally to the point of shaking. Done gone all to pieces...
...went home for something, I don't remember exactly why, but Randy stayed in Charlotte. He never went back home after that." The father-son relationship is still sometimes prickly. "Randy's father has not ever, not one time has he thanked me for what I've done," says Hatcher. "His mother has. She's a wonderful lady...