Word: merlis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken, held monogamy to be comfortable, laudable and sanitary. This is the sort of no-frills domesticity that would appeal to Macon Leary, also from "Bawl-mer" and the main attraction of Anne Tyler's tenth novel. After his wife leaves him, Leary reduces homemaking to an antic science. A percolator and an electric corn popper hooked up to a clock radio allow him to wake up to brewed coffee and popped corn. Bed making is eliminated by stitching a sleeping bag from a sheet. To save time and kilowatts, the laundry is thrown into...
...Chilean Composer and Musicologist Juan Allende-Blin reconstructed and orchestrated about 400 bars of the opera. Debussy's brooding music is spheres apart from the pastoral beauties of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun or the nautical tone painting of La Mer. Indeed, in its consummate wedding of text to music, the work Usher most closely resembles is Debussy's only completed opera, the shadowy symbolist drama Pelleas et Melisande. The tormented Roderick Usher, Poe's unhappy protagonist, is depicted in agonized music that is drenched by the misery in the man's soul. Debussy intended Usher to last...
...graduate of M.I.T. and a for mer Merrill Lynch commodities trader, Markowitz set up his own offices in Washington, New York and Chicago during the early 1980s. A profile published in the Wall Street Journal said that associates described him as "a short, overweight young man who liked to wear jeans and deck shoes to the office and who didn't always pay attention to business details." His empire started to collapse in 1983, when the Internal Revenue Service became suspicious of his dealings...
...Maybe they know about ups and downs there," Shula speculates. As a for mer defensive back, what does he really know about quarterbacks? "I used to call defensive signals, and was always trying to get into the quarterback's mind. What? How? Why? Where?" In Baltimore, Shula's second stop, Weeb Ewbank even required him to prepare for emergency ser vice behind Unitas and George Shaw. When at 33 he became the Colts' head coach, youngest in the history of the league, Shula never tried to be Brown, Ewbank, Blanton Collier or any other coach...
...narratives of development in Western art: a painter-and, needless to repeat, a very great one-inventing a landscape as it invents him. The inevitable result is that one cannot visit Aries without seeing Van Goghs everywhere. The fishing boats on the dark beach of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer have gone, and the fishermen's troglodytic cottages are now replaced by anthill apartment buildings. But to see an Arlesian orchard foaming into April bloom is to glimpse Van Gogh rendering them ("Absolutely clear ... A frenzy of impastos of the faintest yellow and lilac on the original white mass...