Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world- weariness that roams somewhere between Kerouac and Prozac. Singer- songwriter Adam Duritz writes about people who are damaged and drifting, their lives fashionably fraying around them like jeans torn out at the knees. "Step out the front door like a ghost," he murmurs on Round Here, "Into the fog where no one notices/ The contrast of white on white." On Perfect Blue Buildings, he sighs, "Gonna get me a little oblivion...
...strange fog has shrouded the rink at the Odessa Sports Palace, making the skaters look as if they are gliding on air. The decrepit building's ancient cooling system is losing the battle with September sunshine. When the air finally clears, only one skater still looks as if she is floating. She is Oksana Baiul, 16, the world figure-skating champion and the favorite to win the gold in the Olympics next month. It is astonishing that she can train at all on the soft, uneven ice, but a bad surface has been just one of the problems...
...among the most reluctant to discuss them. Yet there is an uncanny similarity in the stories and a moving conviction behind them. Very often the recognition comes only in retrospect. A person is in immediate danger -- the car stalled in the deadly snowstorm, the small plane lost in the fog, the swimmer too far from shore. And emerging from the moment's desperation comes some logical form of rescue: a tow-truck driver, a voice from the radio tower, a lifeguard. But when the victim is safe and turns to give thanks, the rescuer is gone. There are no tire...
...curator, in the early spring of 1958, and my appointment as curator in July, 1958, the public exhibits of the museum were dismantled to make room for the Center for International Affairs. Plans had been formally discussed before Pfeiffer's death of splitting the collections of the Museum between Fog and Peabody, and it was recommended that the Semitic Museum be "sold" to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. McGeorge Bundy, then dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, had flatly refused to continue to pay the large deficits of the Museum--a situation not dissimilar to the present...
...were coming down, it was total fog until we touched the ground," Kaplan said...