Word: settleses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dusk settles in on this warm June afternoon. Four F-15s from the Harvard Air Force streak across the sky, and as their vapor trails begin to fade, 10,000 rockets light up the sky, creating a vast crimson-and-yellow Ve-Ri-Tas shield and profile of a smiling...
Not that anyone has much time for foliage. Verbonich and his wife Linda spend most of the weekend contemplating fruit: the cherries, oranges, plums and lemons, plus elusive sevens, spinning behind the windows of their slot machines. Linda's hands work absently at the change bucket. She feeds the machine...
Columbia (60): Paul Lee 0-0--0; Tom Gwydir 8-6--22; Walter Stewart 2-1--5; Sean Couch 3-0--6; Todd Williams 8-3--19; Tony Chiles 1-0--2; Kevin Mclvor 1-2--4; Mark Murphy 0-2--2; Mark Settles 0-0--0. Total 23-14...
This all sounds pretty Orwellian, but here comes Gilliam's comic twist. Almost immediately after the dust settles, a man in a tweed suit walks in and politely gives the terrified Mrs. Buttle a receipt for her husband before leading him away. At the same moment, state-employed maintenance men...
Hence, "In the American West" is not primarily a social document at all, though at first glance it appears to be. Avedon is not absorbed by the reporter's task of showing how these people look and dress, or with acknowledging the full range of their emotional lives. Instead, against...