Word: haze
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...Coast Guard plane appears. Hoping not to be seen, passengers huddle on the floor of the boat, which is slimy with vomit and seawater. The boat heads to the desecheo to shake its pursuers. No luck. At noon another small plane with American markings breaks through the haze along the horizon...
...younger appropriators, Kitaj is in no sense a conceptual artist. He didn't and still doesn't care about teaching us what theoretical limits can be assigned to art. But he does care passionately about the life and health of painting, as distinct from the mere evocation of image haze; and as a draftsman, colorist and all-around creator of plastic sensation, he has no rivals in the American generation behind his. After so much photo-based figure painting in which the actual scrutiny of the living body, in all its resistant complexity, played no part at all, Kitaj...
...haze of winter, the new Congress settles in and, to the horror and gratification of Democrats, the Republicans take their mandate and go berserk. In the Senate Banking Committee, new G.O.P. chairman Alfonse D'Amato annoys the public with endless hearings on the Whitewater affair, stirring sympathy for Bill and Hillary Clinton. At the same time, Republican proposals to pluck children from their indigent mothers and lock them up in orphanages turn voters against G.O.P. ideas for welfare reform. Meanwhile, radicals like Senator Jesse Helms take over the G.O.P.'s foreign policy and defense strategy, riling allied countries with their...
...likes the idea of non-Harvardians gleefully stumbling around the Yard in a drunken haze and urinating on the steps of Memorial Church, or the thought of someone vomiting in a House courtyard. Still, it's downright frustrating to feel as if every year your college life must be put on hold while visitors descend upon the Charles...
...minions of the military junta, but its symbols. At the main army barracks in Cap Haitien, crowds stripped police and army buildings as if they were exorcising an evil spirit. For most of the week, bonfires fed by old arrest records and prison sentencing memos left a dull blue haze over the town's courtyards. Outside the home of the region's despised military commander, his band's tubas, trombones and horns were piled up to form a barrier in the middle of the street, then littered with thousands of pages of musical scores. "It was their music," said...