Word: dryness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern eye. Constable himself remarked that The Cornfield "has certainly got a little more eyesalve than I usually condescend to give." But the great fact of nature, as Benjamin West had pointed out to Constable, was change. Shadows, vapors, clouds, the dewiness of grass in the morning, the dryness of leaves in the evening: nothing is fixed in a schema. Constable became convinced that he must overcome the stasis that convention and idealism produce in art: his project would then be, as he put it, "to arrest the more abrupt and transient appearances of the Chiaroscuro in Nature . . . to give...
While the jumpers were enjoying the warmth and dryness of the indoors, their teammates were braving the elements of the outside. Andy Regan took the grueling steeple race with a time of 9:32.0, but even more incredible was his teammate Jim MacDonald's second place finish. At one point in the race, MacDonald demonstrated his swimming prowess when he fell into the Steeple Chase pool. After his tumble, he picked himself up and continued to run, beating Yale's Charles Comey by over five seconds...
...live, work play and write is not the stark and barren flatland of cliche. Instead the area, generally termed the "Hill Country", is one of the more beautiful parts of Texas packed with culture and "warm material" for the imagination to feed on: it does not suffer from the dryness that afflicts other parts of the state. The starkness resides, instead, in the meager conditions under which these children must live...
...space she had available. With actors and musicians who appear to have had little formal dance instruction, she has crafted several smooth and polished numbers, involving the entire cast as well as the dancers themselves. The exuberance of the dancing backs up the songs, a welcome constrast to the dryness of the action and the monotony...
...bourgeois, and Kearns presents Peachum with a clear understanding of the action-provoking role. Because of the flatness with which Kearns delivers statements sympathetic to Brecht--"The law was made for the rich to exploit those who don't understand it"--he maintains distance from his character. In his dryness and his logic, his running about and his posing, Kearns reduces the "Beggar's Friend" to a common demoninator, strips him down to the essential. In the simple statement, "Justice gives way to humanity," Kearns presents to the audience a fait-accompli which they must now judge themselves...