Word: mists
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...exited the Back Bay T station, the curious orange glow of sodium lamps guided the path. A warm mist gathersedaround the Mass. Pike, a bifurcating behemoth as visually jarring as I-93. Streets narrowed and warehouses multiplied. Combined with the dim lighting, the northeastern segment of the South End looked eerily like Gotham City...
Have MIT, Wellesley or BU ever lived up to your expectations of college life beyond Harvard? Try something a little different: Framingham State College. Tonight's selection in their International Film Series is Landscapes in the Mist, an example of Greek cinema (with the obligatory English subtitles). Following the movie, film critic Dr. Arthur Nolletti Jr. will lead a discussion. 7:30 p.m., College Center Forum, Framingham State College, State Street, Framingham. 508-626-4968. Tickets $6, $4 seniors and students...
...would walk around the canvas, throwing paint on it from the edges, and the loops and lashes that resulted have a grace and energy that his labored hand drawing never reached. Then there was the pouring, the overlay, one color bleeding into another, producing marbled effects, mists, separations, spots and speckles, each with its element of chance, but all controlled by the prepared mind that chance favors. And the retouching and linkages, done with a brush. "Glory be to God for dappled things!" the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once exclaimed, and that's what crosses one's mind in front...
...early April I was back to normal." But the memory of Wolfe's trying time is echoed in the new novel, when Charlie Croker, observing his at-risk Atlanta mansion and grounds bathed in sunlight, shrinks from the sight and thinks, "The depressed man longs for heavy clouds, fog, mist, chilly weather, downpours, hail...
What I am able to see on this chunk of the Pacific is a minute fraction of what there is to see. At Point Lobos in Carmel, the mist creates false mountains over the water. The waves are humped like porpoises. Kelp, giant forests of seaweed by which Darwin was enthralled, shows only at the top. These plants, which can grow at a rate of 20 in. a day, reach down 100 ft. to granite reefs. The kelp is tethered by stipes-stems, structures that connect the base, or holdfast, to the leaflike blades. Gas-filled floats at the base...