Word: shades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Krasner has been a painter for 40 years-not a woman meant to live in the shadow of anybody else. But by an accident of love, she fell into such a shade when she married a great artist, Jackson Pollock...
WHEN IT'S 92 in the shade it's a dangerous time. Hot, sweltering, no relief until nightfall. Most of life's social niceties and buffer zones have boiled off and what is left is raw will. Thomas McGuane's latest book contains two raw wills, lying as crisp and on edge as dry leaves, ready to burst into flames the moment pressure is magnified. But these particular wills belong to two people who thoroughly know their principles and their capacity for deliberate action. When the collision comes they summon up with heroic energy the grace to die well...
...familiar to the viewers (Bill Bixby, of the old The Courtship of Eddie's Father series), who would have a whole new bag of flamboyant tricks with which to play the cops-and-robbers game. In practice, however, The Magician's sleight of hand is only a shade more unbelievable than its slight-of-wit plots. In one recent episode, Bixby rescued a kidnaped blonde nightclub singer whose will to live he had once (sob!) magically restored after she had been scarred in a fire-aided, of course, by the deductive wizardry of his "paraplegic genius" sidekick. Another...
President Bok moved just a shade closer to supporting the return of ROTC to Harvard last week, telling the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), in a closed meeting that the 1969 Faculty decision to abolish ROTC was made under extreme pressure and great haste...
...execution sites. Some prisoners were lounging in the bleachers. But, Rauch noted, "there was not more than one-tenth of the people we had been told were in the stadium. When asked where the others were, the stadium commandant replied, 'Some prefer the sun, while others prefer the shade. Those you do not see prefer the shade...