Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directly represent the spaces of the Midwest, any more than the jagged profiles and vertiginous falls and splits of color represent the Rockies. Yet the fundamental American sense of landscape-vast space conferring freedom-is unmistakably there. Cataracts of ultramarine blue, gorges of orange and cadmium yellow, a patch of blue appearing like the blind eye of a lake: color becomes iconography...
...oddest sights in sport. Tracing the circumference of perfect circles on the ice, first forward then backward on one foot, the skater moves around a small patch of the rink. Then, after the ice chips have been swept clear, the judges, who have been watching closely, scurry onto the ice. They bend over to examine the skate lines cut into the frozen expanse...
...earn rent and food money (and Cambridge is an expensive place to live), many Harvard graduates patch together part-time jobs. Ann Wittington '75 has a typically checkered employment history: since graduating last June, she has worked as a proofreader for a feminist press (she earned $105 for 30 hours of work); for a Boston College professor working at the Radcliffe Institute (the job lasted six weeks); moving furniture one day, a job she got through a friend ($15 for one and a half hours); and now works four hours each Saturday at Schlesinger Library and ten hours a week...
Thus was one more remnant of Portugal's colonial empire lost last week. East Timor is a mountainous patch of jungle and coffee plantations on the eastern half of the 300-mile-long island of Timor; the other half is part of Indonesia. The Indonesian invasion at least resolved a dilemma for East Timor's 650,000 inhabitants, who had been faced with one of three political fates: continued association with Portugal leading to gradual independence, immediate independence or integration with Indonesia. The generals in Jakarta decided on integration, evidently because they feared that if independence were chosen...
SHIPWRECK by John Fowles. Photographs by the Gibsons of Stilly. Little, Brown. $7.95. Four generations of the Gibson family have photographed dramatic shipwrecks off the Cornish coast of southwest England. They rarely lacked subjects. As Novelist John Fowles argues, this patch of ocean "may well be the most terrible ten square miles in maritime history." Some 2,000 British seamen drowned there one night in 1707; the most celebrated recent victim was the oil freighter Torrey Canyon, which was reduced to catastrophic flotsam in 1967. The Gibsons' pictures (the earliest dating from 1872) all capture the ruined beauty...