Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking from the tiled band shell of the central park square in Zacatecoluca, Duarte declared, "We are going through the exodus of the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land. It is a long road. Elections are only the first step on the road to democracy." But few of the 2,000 or so faces in the square showed any belief that their future was still in their hands. As the haggard President left, the small village
Seems like a long time ago, doesn't it? That's because it is. The last time the Harvard hockey team made a post-season appearance was in 1976, a time when Jimmy Carter was just emerging from his shell. Six yeas or 72 months or 2,190 days--that's about how long it has been for the Harvard hockey fans and the Harvard hockey team and, especially, for Coach Bill Cleary...
Even when the subject is not biblical, a whiff of another world comes off many of the works: Sam Doyle's portrait of Dr. Buz, the voodoo man, getting instructions from his conch shell, or the extraordinary sculptures of charred old wood made by Jesse Aaron (1887-1979), totems and animals whose sheer metamorphic intensity would blow late Dubuffet out of any museum. The strength of Aaron's work owed everything to his belief that his task was to release the latent image from the log, where it was trapped. "God put the faces in the wood...
...fear the answer may be the one suggested by several longtime museum donors, the Corporation is still financially shell-shocked after its $230 million disaster with the Medical Area power plant and seems hesitant to take necessary, limited risks...
...general agreement, an Israeli political scientist remarks: "To some extent this phenomenon is the result of a widespread despair. The Palestinians don't want us, they're terrified of the P.L.O., they don't like the Jordanians, so this is a way of entering a shell. It is an area that Israel can't really touch...