Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tumbledown house on Van Dyke Avenue on Detroit's gritty East Side looks as if it fell from the sky. Actually, it collapsed after scavengers pried the bricks out from the foundation. Armed with wagons, shopping carts, wheelbarrows and pickup trucks, vandals have descended upon the city's empty buildings. In some cases, they have hauled away entire walls and porches, brick by brick. These thefts are a new wrinkle in free-lance demolition on the East Side, which has also experienced a plague of aluminum-siding rip-offs...
Last Wednesday, the Harvard men's lacrosse team was sky-high, ranked seventh in the country with a 5-1 record. A post-season bid to the NCAA playoffs seemed secure. The Ivy League title was well within reach...
Americans long viewed terrorist violence as something that happened to other people, over there. Then, last December, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in the sky over Scotland, killing 259 people, including many U.S. citizens. Two months later, bookstores across the country received bomb threats for selling Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. And last month Sharon Rogers, a 50-year-old schoolteacher, narrowly escaped being blown up on a San Diego street as she drove to work...
...suprematist compositions he made between 1913 and the mid-1920s. To imagine that these were just formal exercises is to underrate them. Malevich thought of his black square and its cousins -- the white-on-white geometries, the crisp arrangements of colored planes floating in space as deep as the sky -- as icons, points of entry into a superior spiritual world. Their vividness, their power to fix one's attention, is also the vividness of the staring eyes of a pantocrator...
Through the fogged window of the Moscow-Tambov express, the early-morning sky seemed so gray and thick that the horizon blended imperceptibly into fields of snow. Children on their way to school dawdled by a railway crossing, the flaps of their fur hats sticking out like ungainly wings. A settlement of wooden farmhouses with carved filigree windows swept by, seemingly unchanged in centuries."So, you're really going to Tambov," said a Moscow friend, surprised that I would be traveling to such a provincial and undeveloped place. "There's a Russian saying: the Tambov wolf is your comrade...