Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first home, the sea...[As] it drew the tides across the barren continents of primeval earth, their daily rhythm exposed to sun and air the creatures of the shallows...Now, the moon calls again and this time life responds with a roar that shakes earth and sky." In Serendip, unfortunately, Clarke's prose--burdened by the inappropriate subject matter--plods more often than it soars...
...album includes two trashy re-makes of '60s pop songs, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Pinball Wizard," the latter made for the still trashier film Tommy, itself a pathetic re-working of The Who's rock opera. Elton John's name did nothing for these ghosts from the past except make them sell. The originals were much better. Elton's willingness to perform them only showed that his fire was burning out. "Island Girl," an original, was among the most annoying of AM radio's most played tunes. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," a vapid, iivv number...
...victory raised the booters' record to a surprising 4-1-2. Coming down off the sky-high Dartmouth win Friday, and not practicing over the weekend, the stalemate seemed like a fair enough result for the Crimson...
...waiting. In traditional fashion, some camped out in alcoves just off the Senate floor, where they propagandized Senators with an array of computer studies and charts. So many executives of major firms swarmed to Washington to make personal pitches that an aide to Energy Czar James Schlesinger groused, "The sky was black with Learjets...
...EDOUARD MANET painted At the Railroad Station; four years later Claude Monet painted a similar scene. Manet chose to depict two pretty women sitting under a sunny sky with the station creating a bland industrial backdrop. Monet omitted the smiling women, painting only the dark, smoky blue train station; and the opening shot of Julia is a technicolor replica of his ominous image--an image that is repeated frequently throughout the film. Julia is the story of Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) and her childhood friend (Vanessa Redgrave) whom she christens "Julia," who together lost the insular beauty of their adolescence...