Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...galaxies yet to be discovered, stars are going through a continuous cycle of birth, life and death. Indeed, there are places where the observer who knows what to look for can practically see stars forming before his eyes. These star wombs are great clouds of gas and dust floating in interstellar space. Like the clouds that formed in the expanding primordial fireball shortly after the big bang, they consist mostly of nature's simplest molecule, hydrogen. A star is born when some force, perhaps a shock wave, drives enough of the hydrogen molecules in a cloud sufficiently close...
Guthrie was an itchy-footed sign painter from Oklahoma who, like a lot of his neighbors, hit the road when the Dust Bowl and the Depression coincided to ravage his native ground. There were plenty of rough spots in his path, but he used these abrasions to polish his lyrical gifts. Along the way he acquired class consciousness, and his political ballads are now magically evocative of the pain and the political passions of working-class life in the 1930s. There is opportunity in this material not only to tell a curious and moving life story, but also...
...rapidly sidetracked on a series of unconnected and nightmarish tangents. Beard, shaken by his wife Leonora's grisly and easily forestalled death, enters into an affair with Paola, a young, trendy Italian photographer who astonishingly remembers Beard's name after having seen it in movie credits. (The dust jacket informs us that Paola's photographs "adorn the book," quite a feat for a fictional character and no doubt a surprise to photographer David Robinson.) All is fine and dandy between the two, as uncovered in some badly written bedroom scenes, until Paola must leave Rome, where most of the novel...
...Dust settles on most national treasures. Theaters that were vivid and inspiriting in their legendary youth subside into enervating routines in middle age. Perhaps the same show must not go on for too long...
...opening tri-meet with Providence and UMass is a case in point. When the dust cleared, Harvard finished second. The judges then found, however, that some of the Providence and UMass runners, unfamiliar with the home Harvard course, had lost their way and run an extra half-mile...