Word: paled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life has been spent as an outsider, an alien among local populations. He was born in Bombay in 1947, two months before the British pulled out of India; his parents were well-to-do Kashmiri Muslims and admirers of English customs and manners. Young Salman's religion and pale skin made him something of an anomaly in his native city...
...meter run: Mark Gomes, Northeastern, 2:28.22. 3000-meter run: George Grant, Boston College, 8:19.25. 4-by-440 relay: Boston University 3:20.25. 4-by-880 relay: Northeastern, 7:52.27. Distance medley relay: Boston College, 10:11.36. High jump: Ken Moody, Boston College, 7-ft., 0-in. Pale vault: Bill Cranmer, Boston University, 14-ft., 0-in. Shot put: Bob Kuras, Northeastern, 49-ft., 6-in. Triple jump: Ken Moody, Boston College, 47-ft., 8 3/4-in...
...seen anything of this magnitude that we can't control except nuclear bombs." In 1987 Otis Bowen, then Secretary of Health and Human Services, said AIDS would make black death -- the bubonic plague that wiped out as much as a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages -- "pale by comparison." In a frightening, controversial book, sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson contended that toilet seats could transmit the AIDS virus and that the deadly disease would run rampant among heterosexuals...
...supported by blue cherubim and bowling before him an immense wheel depicting the concentric divisions of the universe -- the earth, the spheres of water, air and fire, those of the seven planets, the zodiac and the dark blue primum mobile. On the right, an angel chivies our first parents -- pale, forked creatures -- out of a tapestry paradise of emblematic plants...
...mood and sensation. And in its early years at least, it was drawn to the discreet presence, strung along the shores of the Mediterranean, of an elegiac classical past. The figures in Matisse's fauve landscapes at St.-Tropez -- amply represented in this show -- are Arcadians with spots. The pale recumbent nude among the columnar tree trunks in his Nymph in the Forest, 1935-42 or '43, harks directly back to Titian. The flute player in Henri Rousseau's The Happy Quartet, 1902, whose music is joined by the howling of a giant white poodle, is a reprise of innumerable...