Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight of ten R.A.F. Red Arrows jets streaked across the sky in a perfect E, for Elizabeth, formation. Tenor Luciano Pavarotti warbled Happy Birthday over champagne at a cozy luncheon. At Covent Garden, Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov leaped through the air in a new ballet created in her honor. Bonfires glowed on the Kent and Sussex coasts. Cannon boomed from the Tower of London...
Despite the orbiter's death last week, the JPL controllers will still get occasional glimpses from the Martian surface. One lander remains operational and, although it has lost its partner in the Martian sky, it has been programmed to keep its antenna pointed directly to earth and send a weekly report from Mars until it too finally runs out of fuel...
That vitality is there, written across the canvas with enormous chromatic zest, in William Glackens' Breezy Day, Tugboats, New York Harbor, circa 1910. But in Glackens' cheerfully slathered impasto, the sky streaked with cat's paws of pink and the puffs of whistle steam stitched across the fat, oily pelt of the sea, an other kind of sensibility is present. It is very like the world of the French Fauve painters Derain and Vlaminck. The gap between Paris and New York has narrowed to less than a decade, and American modernism is about to begin in earnest...
...beer, a crowded floor alive with Italian chatter. It also often features a 15-minute wait, but it's worth it. Eat huge pizzas, with deliciously seasoned crispy-but-doughy crust. Pour on the hot peppers. Live a little. Die happy, and go to the Hanover St. in the sky with a bloated smile on your face...
Down the street from those hospitals on Huntington Ave and behind the Med School, you'll find a huge building with a smokestack that rises so high in the sky they've put little red lights on it to warn the airplanes away. Below the smokestack is the massive shell of a building that is partially vacant inside. They call it the Medical Area Total Energy Plant--a fancy name for a concept so simple--and it was Harvard's answer to the energy crisis but now it's a crisis...