Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Keeffe provide a heady mixture of sheer sensory shock and austere formalism, of extreme close-up scale and bold monumentality. In this 100th anniversary year of the artist's birth, a selection has been beautifully reproduced in Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers (Knopf; $100). Their richness and vibrancy seem to leave nothing to say, and Editor Nicholas Callaway, except in a brief afterword, presents the plates without comment. The effect is magnificently simple, and simply magnificent...
...Audubon Society Book of Water Birds (Abrams; 256 pages; $35) presents enthralling photographs of creatures that seem made for metaphor. They are clouds hovering pink and white across the surface of a lake, dive bombers plummeting to strike seaborne prey, bankers in tuxedoes posing in comic solemnity at a social event on an ice floe. But the easy, intelligent prose of Authors Les Line, Kimball L. Garrett and Kenn Kaufman allows the real creatures -- from the lava heron of the Galapagos to the bald eagle -- to emerge from the metaphors in full dimension. Not all the faces are pretty...
...turned sour when Nitze gave Carter a hair-raising briefing on the Soviet threat in Plains, Ga., in July 1976. Recalling that meeting, the former President told TIME, "Nitze was typically know-it-all. He was arrogant and inflexible. His own ideas were sacred to him. He didn't seem to listen to others, and he had a doomsday approach." Carter barred him from consideration for a senior post...
...dress at home, in the photo album. I came in jeans and a casual sweater, but on my ears, I wore pearl earings; some habits are hard to break. I thought it would be different; in fact, I hoped it would be different. The culture of the holiday classic seemed somehow associated with graham crackers, Chutes and Ladders, and the trappings of childhood you don't retain. The little girl who had seen her first performance of The Nutcracker had been left behind in a flurry of cynicism and years. As I entered the Wang Center, I thought to myself...
Unless it may seem like I'm picking on particular courses, allow me to generalize: has anyone out there ever taken a course which is likely to be of any real use in later life, assuming of course that boring people at cocktail parties is not a useful function? After spending roughly $60,000 on becoming educated, do you feel that your ability to win at Trivial Pursuit has substantially improved...