Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Andrew Wyeth-America's poet-painter-whose every brush stroke defines the poignancy of man's condition, comforts him in turn with beauty wrought from dried grass and chilling winds...
...deal with a powerful Negro leader who thinks mistakenly that detectives have roughed up his son. But the problems lead to little character revelation; Dougherty, loving his character too well, invariably appears to cut a Path when it seems that Russell will lose his way in the high grass of his own conflicting loyalties...
...panicked in the first stealthy march through high grass toward the water's edge. But as the group neared the canal, one youth became so frightened that he slipped away and ran home. The rest waited until they were sure the coast was clear, then dashed for the canal bank, where the only remaining obstacle to freedom was the water's chill...
...Soltikoff, a 40-1 long shot: the $231,000 Arc de Triomphe, France's richest horse race, run over Longchamps' egg-shaped 1½-mi. grass course. Finishing a dismal tenth was the U.S. Cinderella horse Carry Back, given what Owner Jack Price and other observers (including ex-Jockey Eddie Arcaro) called a "stupid" ride by Australia's Scobie Breasley. "Two hours before post time, Breasley was still in the dining room, having a hearty lunch and sipping champagne," said Price angrily. "At the eighth pole-where ,Carry Back usually makes his best run-it looked like...
...paintings had a similar rhythm, almost musical in their surges of line and empty spaces of pure silence. They required the mastery of the same calligraphic stroke, from the tight lines of the academic seal characters to the freer lines of "grass script." Color, when used, was often so fragile that it looked as if it could be blown away...