Word: rainbowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future U.S. control over the Panama Canal was a phony issue, no more valid than the argument in the John Kennedy-Richard Nixon race in 1960 over whether the U.S. should have defended the Nationalist Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Rhodes told Ford to stop "chasing this goddam rainbow of the Panama Canal." He meant Ford should stop talking about...
...husband and romantic overtures from her sister's fiance. But few of her on-screen acts would match one off-screen performance last week. The woe began when she set out to buy a birthday gift for the daughter of a friend, and a Beverly Hills boutique, The Rainbow, told her it could not handle her credit card. Lasser persisted and police were called. They took Mary Mary quite contrary to the station house when a routine check showed she had failed to pay two traffic fines-negligence that is frowned on in California. Next, a search...
...addition to the 15 hard-core members of the club, there are about 40 interested individuals who desire to do battle with the brook, rainbow and brown trout encountered in the New England waterways...
...machines, like The Hay Wain. Hence, too, an unfamiliar - be cause privately owned - masterpiece, Salisbury Cathedral, from the Meadows, c. 1831. In the afterstorm light, the spire and facade of the cathedral show silver against slate roof, and the clouds are like marble. The cathedral sits inside the rainbow's curve as though in a proscenium arch. Then one sees how every element (building, rainbow, sky, the tree on the left and the cart) is linked by one startling device: the tree, turning on the hub of the cartwheel like an immense brush, seems to have drawn...
Thus in The Colors, the stages of a love affair are portrayed as a psychedelic journey through the spectrum of the rainbow, from red to violet to the annihilation of white. The Birds offers two talking ducks (Curtis and Daffy) trying to fly south through a polluted world; surprisingly, the effect is neither grotesque nor maudlin. Death and the Single Girl revises a page from Woody Allen. An unemployed office worker decides to end it all. Death, an overworked businessman, makes sexual demands in return for his service ("I come and you go"). Failing at that, he offers...