Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friends and many admirers, the English painter Walter Richard Sickert. When they decided to visit a cafe, young Sickert got ready to summon a horse-drawn cab. Degas objected. "Personally, I don't like cabs. You don't see anyone. That's why I love to ride on the omnibus -- you can look at people. We were created to look at one another, weren't we?" No passing remark could take you closer to the heart of 19th century realism: the idea of the artist as an engine for looking, a being whose destiny was to study what Balzac...
...many people, the Crash of '87 turned out to be a heart-stopping carnival ride that dropped them off just about where they had been before the stock- price run-up that preceded the collapse. But others found their worlds turned upside down. Last year's bulls are this year's goats, and bad-news bears are best-selling authors. A gallery, starting with...
This week's North House newsletter warned students not to walk or ride through the Commons alone at night...
Immediately we were thrust back into memories of our childhood--every step we took seemed to bring us further back, to fall days of Halloween expectation and Thanksgiving pageants. We bought candycorn, priced pumpkins and tried to remember the third line of Longfellow's famous poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere...
...federal government has no business spending its dollars on a commercial venture; the purpose behind the space program should be the public good. Ride said last week that commercial pressures on the shuttle to be operational lead to the explosion of the Challenger two years ago. What the space program needs now is a higher goal to shoot for, one that can justify the $11 billion NASA spends every year in these days of tight budgetary constraints...