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...death. The problem will vanish, the earth will get well. The mind billows off to locate better memories, if it can (old glories, myths of its own innocence, old muscles, resources long since squandered, wars won when the nation was young and saved the world, when its virtue shone and sped by on tail fins). Americans con themselves with nostalgias. Was it during the 1980s under Ronald Reagan, the child of an alcoholic, that the addiction to this dreaming got out of hand...
Matisse wanted a place where the sun shone reliably, like a lamp, where the conditions of light, constant from day to day, enabled him to pursue his researches into color without distraction. Later he would find this stability by moving permanently to Nice, but it was not available in Paris. Following ) the sun, going south to a domain of purer light and color, had been his obsession since his first trips to Provence in his Fauvist years. In North Africa it produced radiant motifs: the green garden, the white breastlike curves of marabout domes, the angled cuts of shadow...
...women had numerous standout performances this weekend, but no star shone as brightly as Rainey's. The senior speedster placed first in three individual events, set a new Heps record in the 400-meter run and was selected the meet's most valuable performer...
...straight-from-the-heartland believability. After a sweetly engaging turn as a lovelorn Texan in David Byrne's True Stories, he literally burst onto the scene in the 1987 comedy Raising Arizona, playing an escaping convict who, drenched in mud, erupts from the ground with a roar. He shone again, and added new shadings, as an over-the-hill athlete reliving past glories in Everybody's All American...
...almost mocking contrast to the weather's carnage in the eastern half of the U.S., a bright sun shone on San Francisco and Oakland as 11,000 people strolled onto the Bay Bridge in an advance celebration of its weekend reopening. The 50-ft. section of the upper deck that collapsed during the quake had been repaired well ahead of schedule in a round-the-clock $2.5 million construction feat. California Governor George Deukmejian cheerily declared, "We're back, and we're in business again...