Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miles east of the volcano, experienced midnight at noon. The mining and ranching communities of the Idaho panhandle and western Montana turned into ghostly towns in which nobody could move about the dust-choked streets without surgical masks or some substitute: handkerchiefs, bandanas, even coffee filters strapped over nose and mouth with rubber bands. Schools, factories and most stores and offices closed. Highways were closed and airports were shut down because of near zero visibility, stranding thousands of frightened travelers. Mail deliveries were halted. Electricity was curtailed until workers could clean ash from generators...
...religious allegory to its boundless wealth of burlesque, making the play a perfect entertainment above all else. Neither Sellars nor the ART actors are shy of sight-gags; in just one extraordinarily droll mime sequence, Stephen Rowe's embarassed Bobchinsky, stranded in front of the curtain with a broken nose, loses his only companion on the stage--a cubic wooden platform that descends as he leans on it--and shuffles nervously, disconsolately offstage...
...thought to be dead at birth in Málaga on Oct. 25, 1881. Then his uncle Salvador Ruiz, a celebrated Spanish physician who had delivered the boy, calmly puffed cigar smoke up the baby's nose, provoking howls of protest. Thus did Picasso embark on 91 years of rugged life...
...human beings: "He loved only one thing-his painting. Not his women, not his children." Gilot broke with Picasso in 1953. Jacqueline Roque, the aspiring poet he married in 1961, was described by one acquaintance as "the only woman who ever was able to lead him around by the nose...
...That nose was, for a while, ringed by the French Communist Party. He joined in 1944 and painted for it the famed Dove of Peace, which the Soviets happily substituted for the hammer and sickle as their symbol of peace on earth. No political sophisticate and certainly no ideologue, Picasso eventually distanced himself from the party after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. As Salvador Dali quipped: "Picasso is a Spaniard -so am I. Picasso is a genius-so am I. Picasso is a Communist...