Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million soap followers, the fast and funny scenario may sound too good to be true. The average soap has a torturously slow plot so full of digression that weeks can go by before the heroine is forced to decide whether to paint her nails pink or red. Sex and violence only simmer; it can take years for marriage and divorce merely to be broached...
...remains a surprisingly lyrical composer. Paula Robinson, who directed a recent Harvard Chamber Players performance of Differences, likened Berio to "a troubadour being harassed by machines, yet still loving them." Individual lines are full of wide leaps and bizarre, shifting rhythms, but like Jackson Pollock's dribblings of paint, the lines fuse into a seamless fabric when played together. The sound is not thoroughly blended or homogenized like that of a Romantic string quartet, but there is a dramatic movement which, like the individual drops of water which merge to create a wave, can sweep a listener along...
...said no, come out with us and they said O.K. and we all piled into Briggs's and my '58 Caddy and cruised out of town. The Delac's quite the cruiser, and for only $450 Briggs and I just about cornered the chrome market. Her yellow paint job is a little faded, but at night the Delac does just fine. And night was fast coming, we thought...
When not occupied with writing, Dean does a lot of reading (mostly nonfiction), helps paint and redecorate the house and landscape the grounds. Finding the heckling unpleasant and the routine wearying, he gave up a lecture tour after six weeks. He and Mo encounter little neighborhood hostility, and entertain with small dinner parties for a tightly knit circle of friends (the best-known: Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. and his wife Susan...
...that's all well and good, as long as no one tries to paint an unjustifiable, rosy picture of what actually went on in 1776. The Revolution might have been predominantly male and WASP, but that's no reason why the Bicentennial should...