Word: patching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notebooks, they would certainly have transformed the extremely crude face of Renaissance mechanics, bringing it to the pitch of sophistication the Chinese had reached four centuries earlier. That did not happen, and so by now the value of the Madrid codices is entirely historical: a large and beautiful patch of tesserae added to that gapped, puzzling mosaic of Leonardo's thought. One can only thank McGraw-Hill for presenting it with such dogged and fastidious care...
Fresh from his fascistic triumphs as a vigilante on the sidewalks of New York in Death Wish, busy Charles Bronson is now giving equal time to liberalmindedness. As Mr. Majestyk, he plays a farmer trying to keep the Mafia out of his melon patch and a nice crew of Mexican migrants at work there, labor goons notwithstanding. Bronson's style is more suited to the open country than it is to the urban landscape...
...said that he was unemployed and known as a radical leftist. The fact that Moon had lived in Japan ignited lingering Korean hostility toward the Japanese; resentment became more pronounced when it was learned that a Japanese woman had helped Moon obtain the fraudulent passport. In an attempt to patch up deteriorating Korean-Japanese relations, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka announced that he would attend, Mrs. Park's funeral early this week...
David Rounds' Mercutio just doesn't cut the mustard. I suppose it's all right for him to be half-sighted, with a black patch over one eye. But he must not talk at half speed; after all, he "will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month." Yet Rounds delivers his delicate and dazzling "Queen Mab" aria in a leaden manner, with lots of pauses. Vivace has become andante. I've said before--and I repeat--that the best guide here is the Queen Mab vocal scherzetto and orchestral scherzo from Berlioz's symphony...
...began to hate television. His preppie roommate had an obsession with T.V.--watching the late movie every night, usually stoned. He could not sleep; no matter how low the preppie kept the volume, the monotonal voice drifted effortlessly into his room, settled down like a farmer guarding his melon patch...