Word: fieldings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson outlasted a six-boat field to win the Herschede Cup for the national title. Trailing Northeastern and Penn, Harvard stroked a power 20 after the 1000-meter mark, pulling out to a half-boat length lead. The Crimson extended its lead to the final margin of victory by the 1500-meter mark...
...length lead over Yale with 400 meters to go, but the Elis surged and the two boats crossed the finish line together, with the Tigers being ruled the winner after the judges reviewed the videotapes of the race. Cornell, George town, Santa Barbara and Cal-Berkeley rounded out the field...
...world" -- suggests the narrow bridges of Hiroshige or the frozen waves of Hokusai. In Kadohata's novel of the '60s, a Japanese American redefines ukiyo as the Western U.S., a place of "gas station attendants, restaurants, and jobs we depended on, the motel towns floating in the middle of fields and mountains." Kadohata has a painter's eye, and her narrator's scroll is filled with scrupulously detailed portraits -- of her tyrannical grandmother, of herself and her lovers and, memorably, of unassimilated migrant workers, like "animals migrating across a field . . . moving from the hard life just past to the life...
...with their elaborately swoony brushwork and cunning embellishments of not-quite- naturalistic light. They are very assured but seem a touch overpleased with their own sensitivity. Yet it would be a pity, all the same, if the present decade's recoil from the inflated historical claims made for color-field painting stopped one from enjoying this show...
...after reading his 1971 book on Joseph Conrad, Conrad's Western World. Greene was taken with the scholar's unbiased approach and willingness to travel to the remote and hazardous regions that inspired the author of The Heart of Darkness. And indeed, Sherry makes a fuss about his field investigations for this book: "Risking disease and death as he had done, I went to those places and in most cases found people Greene had met and put into his novels." He tells us that he developed gangrene in South America and got dysentery in the same Mexican boardinghouse where Greene...