Word: haystacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris. Other paintings evolved from sketches Kelly made of arches reflected in the Seine, of water ripples, or of shadows on the metal staircase of a friend's villa near Meschers in western France, whose changes he recorded hour by hour, like some Yankee Monet laboring at the haystack. Sometimes he would cut up a drawing into rectangles and shuffle them about...
Merrimack, Middlebury, Holyoke, the University of Massachusetts, the University of New Hampshire and Wellesley competed in last weekend's races. This weekend's competition at Haystack Mt., Vermont, is expected to attract even more teams...
...Major General James F. Hollingsworth, who dropped from the sky in his chopper (code name: Dynamite Six). "The North Vietnamese are trying to get back to Cambodia now," he said. "We are going to kill 'em all before they get there. These NVA are like mice in a haystack." Another U.S. adviser was less sanguine. "This is just like the First Battle of Bull Run," he muttered, alluding to the civilian spectators and festive atmosphere that attended that Civil War engagement...
...reiver anecdote has Auld Wat Scott of Harden being served a pair of spurs in a covered dish by his wife-a hint that the larder was bare and that he had better go rustle a few cows. (Auld Wat is also credited with a memorable remark to a haystack, which he noticed while returning from a raid: "Aye, if ye had four legs ye wouldna stand there lang...
...film is so resolutely dull that one hungers for the vigorous vulgarity of, say, Doctor Zhivago. The film makers occasionally comply, albeit inadvertently, as when Schaffner stages the obligatory scene of Mad Monk Rasputin wenching it up in a haystack, or when Goldman has Nikolai Vladimir Ilich Lenin grouse, "Well, Stalin has been exiled to Siberia again." There is even an occasional feint at topical significance. Count Witte (Laurence Olivier), trying to persuade Nicholas (Michael Jayston) to halt the Russo-Japanese War, says, "I'm advising you to stop a hopeless war." Replies the Czar: "The Russia my father...