Word: skis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snow. Not anywhere in New England, except for the stuff manufactured by desperate ski-area operators, at a cost exceeding that of fine carpeting. It is a clear, cold day in January, and the early morning light glows on the hills and mountains. Beautiful, but there is a wrongness to the look and feel of things. There is too much brown in the landscape, too much detail. Snow brings blues and purples, edits out corn stubble and fallen leaves, turns a landscape into a line drawing. Its severity is what this fine January light should be explicating...