Word: gales
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...village of Cullercoats on the coast, near Newcastle. He painted the fisherfolk: the men, massive in their rain-slicked oilskins, and the women mending nets and waiting on shore. The distended shapes of windblown clothes give these already robust female figures a sculptural air: you feel the gale blowing their aprons into spinnakers. Homer had to have been looking at the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum, with their fluent drapery rippling across limbs and torso. Sometimes these shawled women, silhouetted against the scudding gray, have the presence of Greek mourners. At Cullercoats he found a basic image...
...gnawed granite ledges became the emblematic landscape of his finest work. No artist since Turner had painted the sea with such lyric concentration, from the beaming blue transparency of the Caribbean, captured in masterly watercolors, to the sullen beat and topple of gray combers driven by an Atlantic gale on the Maine rocks. Cannon Rock, 1895, with its high horizon line and broad V of incoming waves framed by dark rocks, exactly captures the sensation of standing on an exposed promontory with the sea coming straight at you, like a wall...
...virtually every Senate Democrat of stature lined up against him. The barons who lost their chairmanships in the wake of the 1994 Democratic rout quietly recruited Connecticut's Chris Dodd to run against him, arguing that someone with Daschle's inexperience would be no match for Gingrich's gale-force approach to legislating or Dole's awesome mastery of the game...
...civil suit filed in 1985, his former wife Gale Wenk du Pont charged that John had threatened her with a knife and gun and tried to push her out of his moving car. Neighbors recall such incidents as Du Pont's driving two Lincoln Continentals into the farm's pond, one after another, and arriving at one of the houses on his property on Christmas Eve, drunk, bloodied and in his army personnel carrier. "It was like a Howard Hughes scenario," Martha du Pont, wife of John's brother Henry, told the Associated Press. "He withdrew from his family...
...OPENING SCENE OF SHAKEspeare's The Tempest, as a ship careens in a gale, a sailor cries, "What care these roarers for the name of king?" In fact the storm does care. The waves are agents of Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, who is about to launch us into a sort of King Lear's Revenge. Once again we meet a deposed, aging monarch and howling winds. But if the storm on the heath undid Lear, the raging of the elements provides Prospero's salvation...