Word: redder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Audubon is a superbly sensuous poem, full of dawns "redder than meat," and chimney smoke that "bellies the ridgepole." The language is plain-grits as a folk song without being folksy. A be-ginning-of-the-world awe broods over the work: silence, solitude, finally the violence that ruptures both. Above the wilderness soar Audubon's birds, transcendent angels of life and death...
...Next he sprays on the dancing dervish loops and lines that race across them with an industrial airbrush. Finally, he cuts out the picture he wants from the panorama that he has created. He considers titles irrelevant. Red/ Red was called that because he wanted to make a picture redder and more intense than any he had made before. He has done...
Esther was growing redder. "Cripes, what are you going to do about everything...
Today the Transkei is anything but independent. The South African government furnishes most of its civil servants and most of its budget. It is virtually without industry, its soil is eroded and impoverished, its roads little more than tracks for the oxcarts that travel them. Its women wear blankets redder than the dusty earth, its old men sit on the ground in front of their huts smoking long-stemmed pipes. And its young men leave as soon as they can to seek work in the white cities...
...heard to say, "O.K." Outside, the heat shield glowed red-hot as the temperature rose to 3,000° F. The astronauts were enthralled. "The prettiest part of it all is re-entry," said McDivitt afterward. "We saw pink light coming up around our spacecraft. It got oranger, then redder, then green. It was the most beautiful sight I have ever seen." At 100,000 ft. the blackout ended, and McDivitt's voice came through. "We're five-by-five up here," he said, meaning that he and White felt fine. At 50,000 ft. a drogue chute...