Word: gray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surely the gray-and-white-faced miner depicted on the barn mural in "Rural Murals in Dairyland" [May 16] is not an iron miner but a lead miner, -a representative of the men who settled our area of southwestern Wisconsin in the early 1800s. They holed up in their mines in the winters to become known as Badgers and provided much of the lead used by the North in the Civil War. It is truly fitting that his portrait is the center figure of the mural, for he was in the center of the development of the state...
...been determined) at the age of 37. Last week Mrs. West was buried, as she requested, "in my lace nightgown ... in my Ferrari, with the seat slanted comfortably." At the San Antonio cemetery where her husband is also buried, several hundred awed spectators looked on as a gray-painted wooden crate, 6 ft. by 8 ft. by 17 ft., was lowered into the ground by a crane. To deter any grave robbers cum 1964 Ferrari buffs, the crate was covered with concrete. And so another gas guzzler bites the dust...
...Both statements cannot be true, but it hardly matters. The Abandoned Woman is nei ther a profound distortion of the record nor a historical expose, but rather an act of literary sword swallowing. It is a tale with plenty of sharp edge and no vis ible point. ∙Paul Gray...
...understood it was that other stereotype, that Harvard-Fly-Club-air-of-casual-scholarship phantom that was going to take him even further in the gringo world as soon as he could climb out of the long black robe on Commencement. Hell, he figured, there's Ropes and Gray and Rose Guthrie and Alexander and ll those other big law firms, and anyone of them must be dying for an affirmative action special--a bright Chicano who doesn't talk like a Chicano, who in fact talks like Skiddy von Stade with a high-school Spanish accent. Hell, he figured...
...couldn't hack it, because he knew all along that the only reason these other people tolerated the rich kid was that his father built tanks. Paco's father didn't build tanks, and Paco wasn't sure he liked the idea of staking his future at Ropes and Gray on anything as shaky as his tenuous link to the military-industrial complex...