Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hammond Silver Spring...
Gerald Ford's blue and silver jet had landed at the remote Bayside Coast Guard facility of San Francisco International Airport at 10:16 that morning. As he emerged after a pleasant weekend stay at the Monterey home of U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone, the security lineup was impressive: Secret Service agents, highway patrolmen, military police, county police and a special San Mateo County S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics) sniper squad with rifles and camouflage gear. As the motorcade headed into town, every overpass was guarded by two officers with rifles at the ready. A security helicopter chopped overhead...
...bring him a parole or pardon She brought no silver, no pomp or style It was a halo sent down from heaven's light The sweetest gift, a mother's smile...
...only failures on Prisoner in Disguise are two tedious songs by John David Souther, who apparently thinks that if you make a song long, slow, and wordy, people will think it's profound or at least sensitive. But these two--"Silver Blue" and the title song--are simply boring: in singing them, Ronstadt almost defies the listener to pay attention...
...will be rewarded: there are splendid objects in the group (see color opposite and next page). The earliest is a 14th century hand scroll of portraits of Emperors, seated in their ceremonial robes like weighty butterflies. There is an exquisite passage from the Tale of Genji copied out on silver-dusted paper by the great 17th century calligrapher Konoe Nobutada. The screens include two designs of drying fish nets, probably by Kaihō Yūsho (1533-1615)-resplendent documents of the moment when Japanese painting, having absorbed its Chinese influences, became fully Japanese...