Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beaches. They have only one season. The following year, they are replaced by other flower-like faces which, the previous season, still belonged to little girls. For the man who looks at them, they are yearly waves whose weight and splendor break into foam over the yellow sand." The minutes stolen for reflection concern the values of action vs. creation: "I ought not to have written; if the world were clear, art would not exist...
...their other luggage; a slightly older woman, just beginning to lose her lifelong war against crow's feet and encroaching fat, coddles a toy poodle who whimpers against the sharp hissing of the monster diesels; a gaggle of paunchy businessmen, obviously chafing under the discomfort of the sand that still clings to their Coppertone-greasy skin, discusses the probable trends in tomorrow's market. No one quite notices the crowd of young blacks huddled against the newspaper-and-dirty-magazine stand, or feels the resentment in their stares...
...once called the code of detente." Moscow, charged Brzezinski, had maintained "a vitriolic worldwide propaganda campaign against the U.S." and tried to "encircle and penetrate the Middle East." Said the President's National Security Adviser: "I do not believe that sticking one's head into the sand is the best solution to difficult problems in the world...
...fell on her eyes; and she would lie unburied until the birds or the dogs cleaned her bones. The dogs were also there along the road, slipping back to their wolf kinship, and they were sleek, well-fed. We stopped to take a picture of dogs digging bodies from sand piles; some were half-eaten, and the dogs had already picked clean one visible skull. Half the villages were deserted; some simply abandoned, others already looted. One saw, as one traveled, people chipping bark from trees, with knives, scythes and meat cleavers; you could grind bark...
...Suzanne Somers, the lead in NBC's tersely titled special Zuma Beach-the Most Beautiful Girl in the World. The star of ABC's sexcom Three's Company plays a singer whose records don't sell. To learn why not, she hangs out on the sand with the high school crowd and soon becomes one of the gang. Surfs up. Water's right. Beach Blanket Bingo, anyone...