Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That night, looking as if she had taken a direct hit in battle, the 42,000-ton Oriskany limped across the South China Sea, bound for Subic Bay in the Philippines. Shortly after she docked there, honor guards from her crew carried away a seemingly endless line of flag-draped coffins. Thus, only two weeks before she was due to finish her second tour of duty off Viet Nam, the Oriskany suffered in one day the Navy's worst disaster of the Viet Nam War: 35 officers (24 of them combat-conditioned pilots) and eight enlisted men had died...
...other country. It would also be months before the French court could rule on that motion. In the meantime, Dlimi was comfortably ensconced in a VIP cell at Paris' Santé Prison, and l'affaire Ben Barka was where King Hassan wanted it-hopelessly enmeshed in endless legal tangles...
...Beverly Wilshire, the favorite is poached eggs de Severski-on toast, with caviar and hollandaise sauce. In Sausalito's Alta Mira, it is eggs princess: poached eggs on a bed of creamed chicken and asparagus spears with hollandaise. Beyond eggs, there are endless local specialties. Los Angeles' Santa Ynez Inn serves mahimahi, baked fillets of dolphin topped, Polynesian-style, with shredded coconut and sliced pineapple...
...Ageless, Endless. Recently, Wyeth has focused on portraits. His people are no longer elements of landscape, but Rembrandtesque, life-sized faces of those he knows well. As his subject matter has become increasingly human, his painterly light seems to glow within his subjects rather than wash them from the outside. Wyeth himself believes that two of his recent works (see opposite) are his finest portraits...
Grape Wine portrays Wyeth's friend and handyman Willard Snowden. Since 1964, he has painted the wine-loving Negro drifter often in wistful poses suggestive of eternal human patience. Says Wyeth: "He gave me a chance to paint something timeless, ageless, endless. He's all of the Brandywine Valley, its dankness and brooding power...