Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brisk winds, it fell back to earth and hit with a thud that bounced the two pilots out of their gondola. Free of both pilots and ballast, Condor lifted off again, rose to 1,200 ft., flew about 2% miles in 18 minutes, and then landed gently on the plain...
Take the sleuths on the case. Sergeant De Grier and Adjutant Grijpstra cannot claim the instinct for violence or the deductive brilliance that makes for popular detectives. But the two plainclothesmen on the Amsterdam police force are far from plain. As they doggedly pursue their "eternal search" for "who knows something," they find sweetness in old whores, humor in dachshunds, beauty in drab streets...
...Sudr lies on a dry plain, with the Sinai mountains to the east and, across the Gulf of Suez, Egypt's Red Sea hills barely visible to the west. The town is just 30 miles south of the spot where, according to local tradition, Moses struck the rock and made water gush forth. Instead of striking a rock, Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Ahmed Ezzedin Hilal turned a valve and a jet of black crude spurted across the sand. "God be praised," Hilal said. "I cannot express in words the happiness I feel...
...another, the Heights are not barren desert but an area of green, undulating hills with considerable strategic value. Although some military people say jets and missiles make this kind of thinking obsolete, neither the Syrians nor Israelis think so. The Heights look down on Syria's Damascus plain and dominate Israeli settlements around the Sea of Galilee...
...imagery for his work: the gray, salt-pickled balks of timber; their ponderous iron bolts, cleats and straps; the explicit logic of big practical structure. Pieces like Hankchampion (1960) are inseparable from that context. Its salvaged wooden beams, bolted together and strung with chain, are a homage to the plain speech of early industrial architecture. There is also a strong connection to abstract-expressionist painting. As James Monte points out in his catalogue essay, these weathered timbers were "a near-perfect analogue of the wide brush stroke in the painting of Kline and de Kooning...