Word: misting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance," said Harrison, "Climbing up Cold Mountain Path/Cold Mountain Path goes on and on/ long gorge choked with scree and boulders/wide creek and mist-blurred grass/moss is slippery though there's been no rain/pine sings but there's no wind/who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds...
...observers on the ground, elaborate preparations went to naught. Crowds that gathered on North Shore beaches saw only a dramatic blackening of the clouded sky. The heavy mist and cloud cover effectively blocked the view of the moon's transit, making smoked glasses and exposed x-ray film completely useless...
...Chamber of Commerce appeal for a reward fund, hundreds sent in donations in quarters, half dollars, bills and personal checks, totaling within a few days more than $20,000. The usually pro-segregationist Arkansas Democrat praised the outpouring, boasted: "That was the true Little Rock, rising out of a mist of half-lights and distortions emanating from our high school troubles to assert the principles that are the inheritance and pride of our people." In the cold loneliness of a man without a cause, even Governor Orval Faubus was moved to call the bombings "sickening and deplorable...
...sham tricks, comic sex with serious sex, and poetry with lampoon. Result is that The Magician is perhaps his least successful film so far. But for every murky symbol, there is a sharp physical image: footsteps become important, a thunderclap almost too real, and shafts of light through the mist startlingly beautiful. With the help of this brilliant graphic technique, a haunting guitar score, and the talented stock company of players who have turned up in all recent Bergman films. The Magician manages to fascinate as it confuses, demonstrates that even inferior Bergman is worth sampling...
Though his nature descriptions are superb, chrysanthemums and moon mist rarely monopolize Author Mishima's vision. He is especially good at charting the whiplash currents of the Japanese temperament, swerving in an instant from refinement to cruelty. His tilt with tradition is spirited but distinctly un-Japanese. Since 1950, the Kinkakuji has been meticulously rebuilt, and may well gaze at its limpid image in the Kyoko Pond for another demi-millennium...