Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christina's life, one far away from Harvard and my daily existence. With its clear, sweeping brush strokes, monochromatic color scheme, and spare format,Christina's World wipes trouble and anxiety from the mind of its viewer by providing a glimpse of a purer time preserved in the ambered golden tones of Wyeth's brush. Unlike most art critics who maintain that the woman's body in the foreground is twisted in agony and torture, I see yearning and hopefulness in her gesture. Turning away from us toward the home, reclining in the fields of plenty, she is a symbol...
...such novelty vegetables as sugar-snap peas, pearl onions and spaghetti squash, she stocks Asian pears from Japan, loquats from Chile and Mexican Burro bananas. Inspired by her success with the kiwi, Caplan has gone back to New Zealand for tamarillos (tart, egg-shaped tree tomatoes), pepinos (purple-striped golden melons with a silken texture and a flavor reminiscent of pears and honey) and kiwanos, which she describes as the "weirdest looking fruit." They are brilliant orange on the outside and bright green within, and have a banana-lime flavor...
...hurricane in 1622, carrying 260 crew members and passengers, and a priceless cargo, to the bottom. From the tugs, divers employed by Fisher's Treasure Salvors, Inc., have brought to the surface a fortune in emeralds, gold and silver bars, coins, bags of gold dust and lengths of golden chains...
...Japanese banks, concentrated in New York and California. The California Street area of San Francisco, where Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, Mitsui Manufacturers and Bank of Tokyo Trust have offices, seems to be almost an extension of the Tokyo financial district. Moreover, the invaders are swallowing their competitors. San Francisco's Golden State Sanwa Bank will soon buy the California subsidiary of Britain's Lloyd's Bank for $263 million. When that happens, the Japanese will control four of the ten biggest banks in California...
...squabble comes at a time when the U.S. tuna fleet has made substantial progress in reducing dolphin deaths. Tuna fishermen say that between 98% and 99% of the animals captured in nets are released unharmed, and the tuna-boat association has instituted the "Golden Porpoise Award" for the skipper with the fewest dolphin kills in a season...