Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like Saturday, even a pop up posed a threat. Gusty winds swept infield flies to the outfield grass and routine fly balls had a habit of clearing the outfield fences. The winds certainly helped get Maspons his four-for-eight, nine...
Glenn's aloofness from the partisan to-and-fro has also been reflected in his campaign's inattention to grass-roots organizing and political stroking. "We were unorganized in January on purpose," Glenn says, making the reasonable point that a full year before the first primaries is soon enough to begin electioneering in earnest. At the center of the "right stuff-wrong staff' controversy is Glenn's campaign manager, William White, a smalltown lawyer with a notable lack of political savvy, who has been Glenn's closest aide for nine years. Admits White: "Kennedy...
...camera breaks free of its traditional front-row-center moorings and begins to roam. As counterpoint to Alfredo's second-act aria, in which he ardently-if prematurely-credits Violetta's love with taming his fiery spirit, there is a gentle pastorale of lovers picnicking on the grass and gamboling by a stream. Later, a spurned Domingo angrily drags Stratas down a long corridor, bursts into a crowded salon and throws her to her knees as the trombones sound a brusque challenge. It is a chilling moment in its combination of visual image and musical statement...
...make them too charming to a modern eye. Constable himself remarked that The Cornfield "has certainly got a little more eyesalve than I usually condescend to give." But the great fact of nature, as Benjamin West had pointed out to Constable, was change. Shadows, vapors, clouds, the dewiness of grass in the morning, the dryness of leaves in the evening: nothing is fixed in a schema. Constable became convinced that he must overcome the stasis that convention and idealism produce in art: his project would then be, as he put it, "to arrest the more abrupt and transient appearances...
...Hadleigh Castle, 1829. Constable brought to his view of the castle (which overlooks the Thames estuary) a pressure of melancholy: he was painting this desolate shore from memory, and his beloved wife Maria had just died of consumption. The paint is crusted, layer over layer, like mortar; even the grass and mallows in the foreground seem fossilized, and the broken tower-taller in art than in life-has an Ossianic misery to it. Then one's eye escapes to the horizon, glittering with scumbled white light, like a promise of resurrection. The whole image is as intense as anything...