Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encircle the stage. "Every eye is a mirror," she adds mysteriously, and all of the actors immediately freeze, staring intently at the audience for what was obviously an uncomfortably long time for many of the patrons. The unusual interlude greatly increased the audience's need for the play; their relief was evident when movement began on the stage as suddenly as it had ceased...
Roger Moret, Boston's hot young pitcher, picked up his 12th victory against 2 losses with relief help from Bob Bolin in the eighth inning. Tom Timmerman, 8-8, took the loss. Dave Duncan and Walt Williams accounted for the Indians' only runs with homers in the fourth and seventh innings...
These are chilling winds so soon after the summer, though they must be blessed relief to some brows. But most Americans are raised to seek the sun and its warmth, and for these Americans, the grim prophecy of so cool a fall is clear. There is a long barren winter ahead in American politics...
...Relief with Blue was, as Goossen points out, a predictive work. Its curves, both supple and spare, would become one of the marks of Kelly's style. The blue "door" in the middle - physically enclosed by the lip of white relief around it - would, in a different way, become another motif. Kelly's mature painting is very much a matter of cut and constriction. Shape burgeons across the canvas, brushing against its edges in such a way that within the bald format there is no dead space. Kelly's paintings are pervaded by a subtly indicated force...
...Patisserie Francaise, hidden in Boylston Street's collection of below street-level restaurants, offers relief from the madding undergraduate crowd common in Square restaurants. In exchange for somewhat expensive prices, the Patisserie provides several varieties of croissants, coffee, sandwiches and pastry. And if you are fortunate to find a seat it is yours for as long as it takes you to read the paper or write a portion of your current manuscript...