Word: mule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...energy. They are the blues, in paint. Everything seems right about the pattern of Sowing (circa 1940): the fierce orange and yellow stripes, the eccentric placement and displacement of shape, the not quite naive use of repetition and rhyme, even the comic-strip blue cabin and the Looney Tunes mule. And The Breakdown (circa 1940-41), showing a sharecropper's feet protruding from beneath his stalled jalopy while a huge sun sinks and his wife scrapes together a meal by the side of the road, has some of the deep, wry, emblematic pathos of Philip Guston's late work...
...face of the worst regionwide drought in decades. Along with other legendarily soaked cities like Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, B.C., Seattle has imposed water restrictions, urging citizens to take shorter showers and banning the use of lawn sprinklers. The lush, green vegetation has begun to turn brown. Mule deer does are having trouble finding enough food in the woods to produce milk for their fawns. The spring chinook salmon run on Oregon's Rogue River had the largest die-off level in 15 years, attributed in part to low water levels. The situation is worst in Oregon, whose drought...
...object lesson in the benefits of / culture shock. Johnny Clegg, a white South African obsessed with Zulu culture, and Sipho Mchunu, a black man infatuated with the rhythm of rock, made seven raving, ravishing Juluka albums between 1979 and 1985. This selection of highlights from that time still has mule-kick energy, a proud social conscience and a sound that's fresher than the day after tomorrow...
...MULE BONE. Famed among scholars of black literature as an intriguing might- have-been, this 1930 collaboration between Harlem poet Langston Hughes and fiction writer Zora Neale Hurston needed 61 years, and further tinkering, to make it to Broadway. The result, a fable set in a small Florida town, is vibrantly acted and full of charm, its dialectal richness enhanced by twangy Taj Mahal songs...
...coming to Harvard next spring to accept a visiting lectureship, both the national and the local media gobbled up the story. The Associated Press, after crediting the Crimson with the original story, interviewed soon-to-be Professor Lee over the phone from his Brooklyn studio, "Forty Acres and a Mule...