Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Courbet's concreteness that strikes one first. He had an extraordinary power to realize sensations. No sky is airier, more washed with light, than the blue space of The Meeting. Apples in a dish acquire a red density, a solidity-a completeness of being-that no painted apple had before. As the English critic John Berger remarked, the force of gravity was to Courbet what the vibration of light was to Monet and the impressionists. He could put more death into a trout, hooked and flapping on the pebbles, than Raphael could inject into a whole Crucifixion. Courbet...
According to Price's analysis, the media attack on Nixon actually peaked in the period after resignation, when suddenly, "the press simply had no one to call into account any more, so the sky was the limit as far as letting their imaginations run wild. The real spasm of hate that erupted at the time of the Nixon pardon told a lot about the media," Price says...
...chilly night lighted by a half-moon in a starry sky, Sadat was flown by helicopter from his rest house in Ismailia on the Suez Canal to the military airport at Abu Suweir. About 50 local members of parliament and Sadat's Cabinet waited to see him off. Wearing a gray checked suit and a silvery tie, the President was beaming as he hopped down from the helicopter and bade farewell to its crew...
...Russians again outfoxed the experts-and the eye-in-the-sky...
...harvests. Agriculture Department inspectors visiting the U.S.S.R. were taken out to collectives to see sturdy stands of corn and wheat-fields that they now know to have been exceptions. Even the CIA was taken in. It has been trying to keep tabs on Soviet agriculture with eye-in-the-sky photo satellites, and its findings have been reasonably accurate in the past. But this time the photo interpretations went awry, because of what the agency calls bad 'ground truth" data-information from the observers escorted by the Russians...