Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends from Alexandria, Va., gave Gerald Ford a cartoon recently that showed a pathetic-looking John Q. Public handing the President a cracked and scarred world globe and ordering him: "Fix...
Life on the Indian side is, above all, domestic. Husbands sit around at home, play with the children, fix boat engines and take their wives across the river to the Hudson's Bay Store. Welfare is the primary, if not the only, source of income. A few of the younger men go south in winter to work in a lumber camp; the rest stay in St. Augustine and concentrate on staying warm. The women are strong and sensible, the dominant figure in a domestic life where the man's role as hunter has been phased out by external forces over...
...framework is a full year in this small town, from the coming of one spring to another, although the true time of all events seems to be rooted in Fellini's imagination. The look of clothes, the political talk and the movies people go to see fix the period in the middle to late 1930s, although a casual remark or reference can alter the time abruptly 20 years into the past or future. There are no fixed boundaries here, just as there is no firm central character. A young man called Titta appears frequently and serves as a kind...
...across other quake-prone terrain. The scientists will bring their equipment back to each site at least once a year in an effort to accumulate such an extensive record that they will be able to tell exactly how the earth's crust is moving-and thus get a fix on future earthquakes...
...look in vain-except in the hundreds of tiny and miraculously spontaneous oil sketches and color notes that fill the Musée Moreau in Paris-for that dynamism that animated Moreau's romantic predecessors, Delacroix and Chassériau. Rather, it is a delight of surface. To fix it, Moreau resorted to what he called the "beauty of inertia." He noted of Michelangelo, whom he adored: "All these figures seem fixed in a gesture of ideal somnambulism; they are unconscious of the movements they make." Once immobilized, the figures in his allegorical paintings-Oedipus, Salome and the like...