Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America's respectability in the world have been ressurected in the Reagan era--all in the name of getting tough with the Russians. We are, apparently, no longer interested in the merits of the conflicts around the world; details like which side has the support of the people now pale in comparison with the larger goal of sending Moscow a message. This insidious American insistence on confrontation is an infringement on the self-determination of anyone who might be affected by a confrontation between the superpowers--meaning everyone...
...incredible that baseball's Wild Bill Martin of the Oakland A's [May 11] keeps winning. It is even more astounding that he is everyone's hero. The only explanation for this pale wrinkled fighter having so many fans is that he has managed almost every team in the league. He captured me when he gave new birth to my Minnesota Twins...
...slide out of bed on his side and approach carefully. At first, I think maybe he died in the night, but his eyes are live, they follow me, keeping me in focus. I come to the edge of his bed. His mouth opens twice, dry pale lips, paper-frail. But he gets out a sound, a thin, high voice almost falsetto...
...Early in the morning of the fifth night, I wake to the usual jingling of glass and metal, the main sound in a hospital. There's a pale gray light coming through the window and I listen to the early going-to-work traffic. It's the time when I usually have my most depressed thoughts. I'm lying in bed, half thinking, half in suspended animation...
...would form, Runge hoped, the nucleus of a new religious cult. The surviving studies for them, like Morning, 1803, are remarkably hard to decipher as doctrine. Yet that blue world of twining blossoms-Runge's amaryllises and lilies are the ancestors of art nouveau-of genii and weird, pale cherubs is so exquisitely designed and rendered with such pantheistic conviction that it attains the force of religious art. The spiritualist urge lasted far into the 19th century. Its last major bearer was Arnold Böcklin-a Swiss, but included in this show by adoption, as it were...