Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven UNRRA specialists flew from Italy to Sardinia, island of clannish shepherds and tiny donkeys. From the sky the experts saw what looked like blobs of molasses oozing over green baize. Their task was to stop the oozing-the relentless march of billions of locusts...
Whatever else can be said about her, no one paints a pelvis or a skull more cleanly or searchingly than O'Keeffe. Her brush, like a surgical knife, pares the bony involutions to paper thinness, sculpturing them in icy white against the ice-blue sky of New Mexico-where she spends half of each year...
...Philosopher-Playwright Sartre the "city of open sky" was close to nature and its violence-"the storms overflow its streets. . . . Nature's weight is so heavy on it that this most modern of cities is also the dirtiest. . . . When I go out I walk in blackish snow. . . . Even in . . . my apartment a hostile, deaf, mysterious Nature assails me. I seem to be camping in the heart of a jungle swarming with insects. . . . There are the roaches that run through my kitchen, the elevators that make my heart contract...
Like Pieter de Hooch. The spirit which a Princess of Orange called for in her people has already done wonders in their land. Six years have passed since the white parachutes and bombs first fell from a mild May sky. One year has passed since the invaders were routed, leaving The Netherlands' cities in ruins and nearly 10% of her fields flooded. In that year the brine-soaked polders (fields reclaimed from the sea) have been drained, and some are again growing grass for Holland's dairy herds and grain for Holland's bread. The sandy flats...
...church as they are while blowing up a building with dynamic, typify the contrasts the movie makes. Even more striking is the picture of Don Pietro himself, as he is forced to watch the torture of his underground comrade. The religious idea in "Open City" reaches a sky-smashing climax when Don Pietro puts God's curse on the German tormentors...