Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house in Nice, he painted from his bed or wheelchair, surrounded by women-his beautiful secretary, two models, a nurse, cook and maid. Even though an invalid, he still drew in masterly style using a 10-ft. bamboo pole with a crayon on its tip. With this and a pair of scissors, he created his last great masterpiece, the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence. With cut-out colored paper he designed stained glass, tile stations of the Cross, even abstract chasubles. In carving his colors with his hands in forms that startlingly foretold hard-edge abstraction, Matisse conquered...
...Washington, D.C., in adult-education programs in Philadelphia and New Orleans, and in numerous colleges, English teachers are trying not to erase "down home" accents but to add standard English as a "second language" -to provide Negroes with what a New York City school official calls "a new pair of shoesyou wear your shiny new ones for a job interview and put on your old comfortable ones when you get home at night...
...only image of Germany he can permit himself is that of a desolate landscape of expiation. He must deny modern German prosperity and seek a severer judge than history or time: himself. He is reconciled with his father only at the price of a suicide pact, and the pair drive into a nearby river. Frantz's tape-recorded voice goes on sermonizing in the library: "The century might have been a good one, had not man been watched from time immemorial by the cruel enemy who had sworn to destroy him, that hairless, evil, flesh-eating beast -man himself...
Caught at the Pass. Innocent skiers have also developed some defensive ploys. On the lodge walls at Stowe, Vt., they crayon huge messages saying "New Yorkers, go home." Even more direct -and effective-is the practice of splitting up pairs of skis, placing them hundreds of feet apart. Sometimes husbands and wives will leave a his-her pair on one side of the lodge, their mates mated off on the other, and stomp off to have a carefree lunch. But even that is not infallible. Recently a racer at Squaw Valley stashed his Head Competitor skis in widely separated locations...
...Utah, discovered that his skis had been swiped while he was buying a Chap Stick, he hopped into his car, took a short cut to the spot where the ski road meets the highway. As each car stopped for the traffic, he counted the number of skis on top, paired them off with the passengers until he found a car with one too many pair of skis. He was back on the slopes for a final run before his teen-age robbers had warmed up in the cooler...