Word: pined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After picking up his intermediary, wrote Nagaoka, he drove 20 miles to a spot where two men blindfolded him and led him into a deep pine forest. There the mask was taken off. "The moon was shining bright," reported Nagaoka, "and sitting on a huge rock three feet before me was the man I had come to interview." Not to be fooled, Nagaoka pulled out a photograph of Ito and compared it with the man's face. "Except for the grizzled tired face, the sharp gleaming eyes and the shabby suit," wrote Nagaoka somewhat ambiguously, "the man was undoubtedly...
...mountains spread south, their forest cover gradually changes to pine and alder, then disappears entirely. And as the forest disappears, the mountains dwindle until in the far south they become mere hills...
...pace slowly. From each of the 19 towers which space the mile-long encircling wall, the blue muzzles of machine guns point out over the huge (pop. 4,000,000), busy city of Moscow. Inside the Kremlin's walls, the tiny wooden church of Our Saviour of the Pine Forest, long since shorn of its bonds to God, nestles beneath the great golden domes and onion-topped towers of the Uspensky and Arkhangelsky Cathedrals, which are now museums...
...Lawless (Paramount) is not only a good movie but, considering its makers, it is also as unexpected as a slum documentary by Cecil B. DeMille. Produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas (the "Dollar Bills"), longtime Hollywood specialists in low-budgeted blood & thunder hokum (Captain China, El Paso), it is an honest, unpretentious picture about racial prejudice and mob violence...
...after the war, he settled down in the Cezanne country near Aix. There, said Tal-Coat, he found himself at last, and "found the world in the shade of the ever-changing mountain mists of la Sainte Victoire." Taking to the woods, he studied "the tangled roots of the pine trees . . . the silence of the rock." Later in his studio he tried to catch the forest's "union of space and movement" on canvases which he covered with patchy, off-white backgrounds, spots of green, grey, mauve and brown...