Word: misted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raise the $850 needed to get the new publication off the ground, said Tarver, who last year mediated a dispute between the GSA and the yearbook over an article in the book that made joking reference to gays in Adams House. He added that the GSA will try to mist enough money through donations and advertising to print two more editions next academic year...
Midmorning on Oct. 10, 1980, a plane flew low over the foothills of the Khao Khouy Mountains in southern Laos. As it passed above the village of Long Sa, the craft began trailing plumes of reddish-yellow gas. Villagers enveloped in the falling mist felt dustlike particles landing on their skin. The air smelled of burning peppers. Ma Hear, who saw the mist fall on the village from a protected lean-to on a nearby hill, recalled that within minutes many of Long Sa's 1,000 residents fell ill. Itchy rashes, followed by tiny blisters, appeared on their...
...waranth and sensitivity and kindness of remain disembodied to the end, and confronting and nearly palpable mist that ultimately disperses to nothingness for want of somewhere to settle. Without sustained tension or a cohesive enough plot, Fran's love and courage, however deeply feld, however hardly come by, remain abstractions. Like the exquisitely wrought texture of cultural nostalgia and theatrical illusion that form the basis of Alfred's style, they ache, desperately, for a more visible framework to gild...
...belief that cultural synthesis might redeem us all. How can one follow this show, from its first choked and turbulent exercises, through the grapplings with chosen masters (Picasso, Masson, Miró, Orozco) in the "totemic" and "archetypal" paintings of the 1940s, into the air and vastness of Lavender Mist or Autumn Rhythm, without seeing that Pollock's career was one of the few great models of integrating search that our fragmented culture can offer...
...piranhas were raised on the Stockman spread, but the farm comes into view: "The inflation premium melts away like the morning mist"; "all conventional estimates just wind up as mud"; "if there's a consensus, he [Reagan] is not going to buck...