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...women of Harlan Country who shine particularly. They are not pretty women; they've been through too much for that. But they have dignity and character, and they stand by their men. Sometimes, when the men sit, they stand up for them. Two are especially outstanding--Sudy Crusenberry and Lois Scott. Crusenberry is stringy, with a long horsey face; she looks like the breaking up of a hard winter. Scott is gregarious, aggressive, and big--a tough woman. At one point she laughs and reaches into her prodigious bosom and comes up with a Colt .32, and, still laughing, replaces...
...racquetwomen opened with a tough 4-3 loss to the Country Club of Virginia, as bad weather forced them to play the match indoors. Two days later the weather improved but the sun didn't shine on Radcliffe, as Westwood Country Club pasted the squad...
...Sackler collection has a Western bias in that the paintings were selected with an eye to the most "original work of the scholar-amateurs." Hung in the Fogg next to examples of the first-rate copies they spawned, the masters' works shine all the more distinctly. Comparing original with copy, qualitative differences emerge--things that you can put your finger on, figuratively and physically, in the painting but that are hard to verbalize. (The catalogue, a magnificent opus of scholarship and reproductions, strives bravely to do so and comes up with some hilarious erudite observations: "the particular hose-like configuration...
...wave of relief with the warm weather shuddered through the frozen city of Buffalo, N.Y.--which has been hit particularly hard by this year's cold spell--bringing hope to its citizens that the sun might really shine once more...
...colleague, Selzer watches death at work. "You do not die all at once," observes the surgeon. "Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus . . . There are outposts where clusters of cells yet shine, besieged, little lights blinking in the advancing darkness. Doomed soldiers, they battle on. Until Death has secured the premises all to itself...