Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene at 23 only to abandon concerts for good eight years later? When Gould died at 50 in 1982, he left behind a mess of unanswered letters and a plethora of unanswered questions. Now, for the first time, the whole jumble has been largely straightened out in an admirably lucid and level-headed biography by Otto Friedrich, author of such previous books as Before the Deluge and City of Nets and a TIME senior writer. In Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations (Random House; $24.95), Friedrich counterpoints Gould's prolific writings with the reminiscences of more than 80 people...
...much better than a barn." "Well, then! You shall have the handsomest barn in England," Jones answered, and produced it. He never delegated a design or failed to transform what he copied. He thought -- and drew -- in terms of large volumes, generous spaces, exalted plainness relieved by lucid, ingenious detailing. Later Georgian architects would owe him an immense debt. He was the father of English classicism...
...wide variety of TIME stories since 1971. Twice a month America Abroad will offer readers a regular opportunity to read one of Washington's most perceptive observers of foreign affairs. Says World editor James Kelly: "Talbott has the rare ability to explore complicated issues in a manner that is lucid and provocative...
...than the main body of the structure, with a copper conical top. Equally heartening is the graceful design applied to a humble fertilizer and hay-bale storage shed for a garden center in Raleigh, N.C. Local architect Frank Harmon unapologetically used homely materials (plywood, corrugated fiber glass) but observed lucid symmetries. A row of birthday-candle-like light bollards stands outside, handsome and functional...
...pore over the bones of War and Remembrance and see (in the fall chapters, at least) the definitive example of a once flourishing breed: a lumbering but amiable dinosaur, equal parts history and hokum, spectacle and soap opera. The historical narrative plays best, as the series provides a lucid account of the key battles and decisions on which the war turned. It also dramatizes, with chilling bluntness, the Nazi atrocities at Auschwitz, as well as the slaughter of Jews at Babi Yar. Few lines on network TV are as shocking as the remark of a Nazi officer on hearing...