Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fog and Green Velvet. To compare Friedrich as a romantic to his great English contemporaries Turner and Constable is absurd. It also distorts the actual nature of his achievement. English romanticism always had an intensely realistic strain; its ecstasies of involvement with nature came from a meticulous observation of growth and form. This rarely happens with Friedrich, whose work (see color opposite) often had the peculiarly stiff and abstract character of a landscape assembled from prototypes. There is, for example, no way of reading Traveler Looking over the Sea of Fog (circa 1818) as a real scene; with his wind...
There are recollections of adolescence: scatological pranks in a schoolroom, masturbation contests in a car, an encounter with a fat, aging woman with enormous breasts. There are asides (Titta's grandfather lost in the fog and thinking himself dead), bits of local color (practically the whole town moving out of the harbor in small boats to cheer a new ocean liner). Under all, there is a steady stream of events that do not change: a family death, a wedding...
...Three was to be the start of the big comeback for Southern Cross. The Australian crew had been defeated in the first two contests by margins of 4:54 and 1:11, and their backs were against the proverbial wall. But the first two races had been sailed in fog and light winds. This was not the Southern Cross's weather, the boat's admirers contended. Wait until the breeze freshens, they claimed, and she'll sail up to her much-publicized potential...
...following a Sunday lay day, the fog finally exited and the wind picked up a little. It was still not the steady 20-30 knot breeze the Cross was used to off the coast of Australia, but the 12-14 knots had to do. No one had really given up on the gold-hulled challenger, and hopes were high that she would finally put it all together...
Seeking sun and solace, Nixon had moved from one opulent California fortress to another. Just before the pardon was announced, he and Pat left fog-shrouded San Clemente and drove 150 miles east to the 200-acre Palm Springs estate of his friend Walter Annenberg, U.S. Ambassador to Britain. But his swollen and painful leg kept Nixon indoors, away from the 18-hole golf course and eleven gravity-fed lakes and pools. On Thursday night two helicopters carried the former President and his entourage back to San Clemente. The next morning Nixon's personal physician, Dr. Walter Tkach, flew...