Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immense sacerdotal gravity: it could stand in for religious icons. Even a relatively small easel painting like Flower Day, 1925, is consciously hieratic in its symmetry, the stillness of its squat figures, the blazing epiphanic color and the clear identification of the Indian flower bearer, bowed under his angelic load of calla lilies, with a priest bowing before celebrants. And though dreadful excesses of cheap tourist cliche would sprout from Rivera's fusion of the thick crankshaft rhythms of pre-Columbian sculpture with the observed faces and bodies of Mexican peasants, there can be no doubt that in his hands...
Minnesota starter and loser Frank Viola (now 4-4) failed to retire a batter in the Red Sox first inning. After Marty Barrett led off the game with a single, Boggs singled and Dave Stapleton walked to load the bases for Jim Rice...
...mornings men and elephants erect it, and in the evenings they take it apart. The drill, for 16,000 miles and 20 states, is rise before dawn, drive to the next town, set up, perform, usually at 2 p.m. and again at 8, collapse the tent, sleep, get up, load and drive. The highest-paid acts--whole family troupes that shoulder chores across the board, from flying high to walking nags--get $2,400 a week, in cash, each Sunday, payday. The lowest-level pay is $75 a week. Seventy-five, incidentally, is what the butt of the ancient joke...
...lighten our load, The Crimson will publish only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays through reading period and exams. We may pass our courses and you'll have less to district you in the mornings...
...lighten our load, The Crimson will publish only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays through reading period and exams. We may pass our courses and you'll have less to distract you in the mornings...