Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life represents one ideal of the 1960's: he is sensitive to the land, to flowers and fruit, ignorant of political reality, forever optimistic, and certain that sincere love will cure all evils. It is a seductive philosophy...
...study of the "Apples of Cezanne" is fascinating. Schapiro notes the central place given to apples in Cezanne's still lifes and explores the source of his choice of objects. Schapiro leads the reader through Cezanne's early paintings and writings to point out Cezannes's association of fruit and nudity and his particular use of apples to indicate "displaced erotic interest...
Apple is the fruit of Jobs and another college dropout, Stephen Wozniak, 26, both of whom had worked for West Coast electronics firms. In 1976 they sold a Volkswagen Micro Bus and a calculator to scrape together $1,300 to build a small computer in Jobs' garage. It took them six months to design the prototype, 40 hours to build it from scrounged parts, and no time at all to sell it to a retail computer store in California. Says Jobs: ''To our amazement, the store ordered 50.''The Apple Computer-so christened by Jobs...
...mysticism and morality lurks some talent. But the actors don't have a prayer in the hands of Richardson and Berney. As the midwife says to the ailing sinner, Barbara Allen, lying on the bed after bearing her witch-child, "It ain't yer fault. It were the fruit of yer husband. There weren't nothing you could...
...Jaya Prakash Narayan, 76, Indian independence fighter who for 50 years wielded great political and moral influence in his country, though he never held public office; of heart disease; in Patna, India. Born in a small village, Narayan studied in the U.S. for seven years, supporting himself as a fruit picker while, he later said, drinking "deep at the fountain of Marxism." On returning to India in 1929, he joined Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in the struggle to liberate India from British colonial rule and was repeatedly jailed as an agitator. After independence in 1947, Narayan was heir apparent...