Word: scars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...water had given the ocean a hellish glow. A blanket of putrid smoke obscured the moon, but the roaring inferno and glaring searchlights of the firefighters lit the coast five miles away. I knew that when the fire finally went out. It would leave a great scorched scar across the landscape...
Seen from an airplane, it looks like a giant scar stretching across the Great Plains and over the horizon. For much of last summer, however, the scene featured countless lengths of steel pipe lying like uncooked spaghetti beside deep ditches. Here and there clusters of yellow machines and men in hard hats or baseball caps could be seen, many of them bare-chested under the hot sun, some working under the shade of umbrellas attached to the pipes...
...Vice President recalls in chilling clarity the bare arm of Roy Benavidez, belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor last year for heroism in Viet Nam. In Texas last week the former sergeant told him the scar came from a Vietnamese bayonet thrust...
...Tony for Seesaw almost ended his career as a performer, and he was not offered new parts, probably because producers thought he would be too expensive. He tried a nightclub act and was roundly panned, which left what he calls a "huge scar." He was praised, however, for his direction of a feminist revue, The Club, in 1976 and for the current off-Broadway hit Cloud 9. It is as director and choreographer that he is now generally known. "Performers get applause," he says ruefully. "Directors get gray hairs...
...have always tended to be the ones of "natural vision": the vast pearly expanses of flat Dutch land, richly differentiated in light and shadow; and the woodland scenes. Without straining for effect, he hit the exact note over and over again. Even a self-conscious device, like the ocher scar on the old oak that anchors the radiating composition of Hilly Landscape with a Great Oak Tree and a Grain Field, circa 1654, is perfectly assimilated to the other elements of the painting. Such a canvas is pure Ruisdael: the precise eye for detail, the loving description of foliage, grass...