Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas added his second of the night at 12:16 on a magnificent play. The "Turtle" picked up a bouncing puck at the Husky blue line, whirred, past a N.U. defender, and then let loose a 30-foot slapper that the shell-shocked McKenna only waved...
Pressed Flower. The son of an avid shell collector, Connolly had a passion for classifying. He invented categories of style-for instance, mandarin (Samuel Johnson, Henry James, and all those who don't write as they talk, including, of course, Connolly). His lifetime hobby was drawing up lists of those who made literature what it is today, culminating in that half book, half catalogue, The Modern Movement. Connolly loved the sweeping judgment: "The greatest single poem of the first half of the twentieth century . . ." turns out to be the Four Quartets. "If there is one key book...
...lovely as a thoroughbred or a racing shell. The acrid Manhattan air filled her nostrils and traveled down her gut until she was infused with gritty candor. "I guess I come off looking like a lightweight," said Model Margaux Hemingway, 19, implausibly, and turned to display a 6-ft. frame. Four months ago, Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter left the family's split-level in Ketchurn, Idaho. One night when she was feeling good and funny and true, she revealed that she had been conceived after her parents had put away a bottle of Chateau Margaux, the kind...
Murder on the Orient Express emphasizes the sentimental aspects of the Agatha Christie novel it's based on. It presents no layer of cynicism to be penetrated, the kind of tough-minded shell Bogart provided to make sure the final pill wasn't too sweet to swallow. The moral situation on the Orient Express is black and white, and the detective shares everyone's assumptions about right and wrong. There can be no classic confrontations because at bottom everyone agrees. This film doesn't have the kind of hypnotic effect that leaves you spouting its dialogue days later...
...represent the birth of modern photography, but by trying to cast them as "hard focus pictorialists" he takes all the edge out of their radical innovations. Weston is represented with several abstractly formal pictures from the early 1930s (e.g., cross-sections of an onion and of a Nautilus shell), but with only one landscape, and none of his final landscapes from Pt. Lobos. Evans, in turn, has several portraits of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men--vintage, but only one of the streetscene/building shots which constitute most of his work, his best work, and the work which...