Word: raindrops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marked by a rolling placidity, Manakas' guitar solos make "Serpentine Wall" catchy and memorable. "Infinite Circles" follows "Serpentine Wall" with a completely different sound marked by piano and cello. Cossu and cellist Eugene Friesen, who played on the Windham Hill release, New Friend, often mimic each other in a raindrop pattern and also present some haunting harmonies...
...Blue Umbrella No. 2, she is a creature of formidable glamour, radiating a Monica Vitti-esque wistfulness in the rain (the slightly blurred expression is given by the three highlighted dots on each pupil), her pink and red scarf an homage to Bronzino, a raindrop neatly mimicking a tear on her cheek. Katz can also be very good at holding large areas of color in strict, hushed equilibrium (the "abstract" side of his work); two of the best paintings in this show are of birchbark canoes, their graceful forms doubled in reflection, riding on even fields of green and blue...
...State Department quickly ridiculed Meselson's theory as "the great bee caper" and stated that its scientists had already rejected such natural explanations. Spokesman Alan Romberg pointed out that one sample of a yellow raindrop weighed 300 mg, which, he said, "is certainly more than a bee could drop." The greatest flaw in Meselson's theory, Romberg continued, is that it fails to explain why yellow rain contains fungal poisons, or mycotoxins, which are present in doses large enough to kill a man, let alone a bee. The Government contends that mycotoxins have been found in the bodies...
...hiccups, and then resumed its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps." The eerie, lonely beauty of perpetual dusk is condensed in an impression: "Northward above the mountain shoulder she saw one bright star shine clear, gone the next instant, lost, like the reflection in a raindrop or the glitter of mica in sand...