Word: quietness
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...Andrew Wyeth's skills as a draughtsman - and maybe also as a showman - are owed to his boisterous, demanding father. But the quiet and spareness of his pictures, the sense of longing and abandonment, of having exacted the maximum effect from the minimum means, may be a reaction against his father's swashbuckling art. His father also marked Wyeth's life strongly in one other way. In 1945 the elder Wyeth, along with his 4-year-old grandson by Andrew's brother Nat, was killed when his car stalled on a railroad track. It was an event that Wyeth...
...provided solely as the context every up-on-the-news Indian might have.Puri is a both a beach town, and a temple town. The beach stretches wide and sandy along a rather temperamental section of the Bay of Bengal; discouraging me from entering beyond knee-high. Nonetheless, a quiet gap in which to settle with a book was tough to find amongst the Bengali holiday-makers, at least in this festival time. The temple, meanwhile, honors Lord Jagannath—an iteration of Vishnu whose form, along with his two brothers’, is pulled through the streets...
...just trying to stay very quiet and focused until we come to the day itself,” she said. “The occasion is literally unimaginable...
...panic. People assume, in an airplane crash, that there's pandemonium and people panic. But in fact, according to research done after earthquakes and natural disasters and airplane crashes, panic behavior rarely happens. In fact, as passengers are describing right now, people were scared, but they got very quiet, silent; they awaited instructions; a few people took command, got everybody in line and got everybody off the plane. So there are people crying and people that are afraid and people giving voice to their concerns, but if you're trying to get off a plane that's in the water...
...weird because I think when she actually passed away, there was never peace and quiet for any of us. Her face was always splattered on the paper the whole time. And for the last 10 years, I personally feel that she has been - she's always there. It's always been a constant reminder, a constant reminder to both of us and everybody else. And, therefore, I think when you're being reminded about it, it does take a lot longer and it's a lot slower." - On coming to terms with his mother's death. Dateline interview...