Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politicians don't do so well there will be professional comedians on hand to shore up the show...
...Itinerants. His work reflects anintense compassion for the suffering of thepeople, and his work comprises scenes of theeveryday tragedies of peasant life. In "A DrownedWoman," all the humiliation and injury of peasantliving is dramatized in one image of everydaytragedy: a peasant woman clad in black lies washedup on the shore, her hands and feet intertwinedwith seaweed. The yellows, browns and blacks ofthe painting are not beautiful, but they reflectPerov's artistic asceticism, his willingness tosacrifice prettiness for the sake of socialcommentary...
HOWARD HAILS FROM THE NORTH east. He grew up in Manhasset, New York, located on the northern shore of Long Island. He acted and played basketball at Manhasset High School, where he was the only white player on his school team. He garnered the nickname, "White Shadow," from the rival Great Neck basketball squad. Regarding that nickname, Howard's former high school coach Fritz Mueller says, "sure he liked it, but he'd love any nickname. He was very funny and would spend hours singing in the showers with the other guys after practice, because Ken is a great singer...
...lean, pock-marked man got to talking about the food in jail. It isn't bad in Concord Penitentiary; they give you half a chicken on Sundays. But the South Shore, now--that was the worst...
...Indian captain, Ajay Kumar Verma, said in a ship-to-shore telephone interview that four empty tanks were hit by an Exocet missile...