Word: midday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wave, most of them elderly poor who live in homes without air conditioning. Weather forecasters predict the heat wave will continue this week, breaking a record of 25 consecutive days of 100° temperatures set in 1952. Although health authorities are warning area residents to stay out of the midday sun, joggers still pack city parks at noon. Golfers also show up on the courses. But they are playing with a new rule: the ball can be moved without penalty if it falls into a crack opened in fairways by the heat and drought...
...skinned Pomeranians have far less melanin, a protective pigment, than most other, darker-skinned Brazilians. With the trees gone, says Puppin, "children are constantly in the sun. We try to warn them, but you can't expect kids to walk around in hats and long sleeves in the midday heat...
...background, and one does not get it. The U.S. that rises from some of his drawings in the 1970s is an edgy, nasty place, a theater of disaster populated by grotesques. The white paper takes on the look of Manhattan's 42nd Street in summer, bombed out by midday glare. Whores, bums, flint-faced Irish cops, frazzled black pimps, rats, crocodiles up from some imagined sewer, sirens emitting Technicolor laser blasts of sound, bulbous cars belching their exhaust smoke, an S and M homunculus encased in glittering leather with the motto VIVAN LAS CADENAS (long live chains) worked in studs...
Wednesday, April 12: Music at Midday--Erica Klemperer plays the violin, Jewett...
...Music at Midday: Marion Verbruggen, recorder, plays music for solo recorder. Jewett Gallery...