Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...able Governor whose main political misfortune was authorship of the state's first income tax, Walker dropped the boss issue in favor of a vague promise that he would give the voters a "fighting chance." Had Walker made up with Daley? No one has said, but it is plain that Walker could not have won without some Daley cooperation in Cook County, which encompasses about 50% of the Illinois vote...
...people did not all look well-dressed or well-fed. Many of the children, even some of those being marched in school groups on the road itself, were without shoes, and their clothes were often shabby and patched. They looked, on the whole, distinctly thin. The adults mostly wore plain, sleeveless white shirts, which lent an air of brightness to the city that it badly needed...
...Winick to cover the International Health Fair [Oct. 23]. Though he renders a service in exposing the faddism and snake-oil huckstering in the movement, he overlooks what will be its lasting effect: turning Americans away from the plastic "long shelf life" foods of the supermarkets back to the plain, flavorsome-and more healthful-foods of the real world...
Like most Ozu films. "Tokyo Story" is about the increasing contrasts between old and new Japan. And like all Ozu films, the plot is so plain, despite its variety of psychological and emotional levels, that it can be summarized as an anecdote. An old couple leave their home in the port-town of Shimonoseki their children in Tokyo. But there they are intruders in spite of a fond reception, there is no place for them in their children's homes, and they are sent away to vacation at some hot springs resort. The boisterous carryings-on of young people drive...
Wabi is one of the key ideas in traditional Japanese culture. It has to do with spareness, poverty and austerity. A teahouse, made of bare, unlacquered wood, with its straw thatch and river stones, displays wabi. Wabi is the rough, salty irregularity of a classical tea bowl, the plain twig in a flower arrangement, the coarse black cotton of a kimono. Its meaning extends beyond the sphere of aesthetics into a more general discipline; it suggests an uncluttered and precisely lived life in which the individual is brought into a clear relationship with nature and with his society. No matter...