Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saturated lushness that it belonged to an order other than nature. Color pages and Bendel's window displays gave Smith, fresh from the pinched dampness and grayness of England in the '50s, much the same sense of abundant, amoral pleasure as reflections on water and glowing fruit on a table gave the Impressionists. Their color was everything that color in English art was not: exotic looking, artificial and rich...
...hydrolab operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Apart from a malfunction that sent the lab's temperature soaring to 90° at one point, the amateur aquanauts had little trouble adjusting to their watery environment, or to their spartan diet of soup, fruit, peanut butter and crackers. "Unlike the space program 15 years ago, the facilities already exist for expanded underwater research, and thus it can be done with a minimum of expense," enthused Weicker after bubbling to the surface. "Almost anyone can work down there -as my doing it proves...
...sensitive to slight variations in meter. And his desire to immerse himself in the moment without guilt about the past or ambition for the future, is no less Chinese. "The most beautiful thing is the concentration. When children see an object like an insect, a butterfly or a fruit, they have complete absorption in that object. And if you can capture that, that is beautiful...
...mold. This background is important to Agee not only because he wants to tell us what he did as a CIA agent in Latin America; he also wants us to understand why he did it and to agree with him that trees grown on American soil must produce rotten fruit...
...going to fight like hell to get this country back." Fighter Davis was bothered, though, by the fact that the party had chosen such an unproletarian meeting place. "I don't like being here," she said as she sat eating a cantaloupe in the lobby. "We got this fruit at a grocery down the street. That will...