Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fresh tomatoes and political candidates. The latter crop may break all yield records as we rush on toward the fall congressional elections. The experts calculate that there will be more handshakes, more speeches and more television en treaties than ever before. These same experts also suggest that when the smoke clears there may be very little change in the Congress along party lines. But there will be more internal stress in the political system. There will be more trouble in the Legislative Branch for its leaders and for President Jimmy Carter...
...library and most of his papers. While other historians have tended to base their conclusions on Jefferson's later correspondence, Wills persuasively argues that Jefferson's mind was thoroughly matured by the time he was 27, the year so many of his books went up in smoke. Wills shrewdly reconstructs Jefferson's intellectual inheritance: the lan guage and assumptions with which he worked, the ideas and writers he admired...
...Many Christian families who survived the civil war in West Beirut had gone to the eastern part of the city to try and start a new life. They said it would be safer there. Now black smoke hangs over it like a cloud smelling of death. Shells land every three minutes. In the Phalangist stronghold of Ain Rumanneh, every house has been hit and many leveled. One man who ran upstairs during a lull to salvage an old family heirloom had his legs blown off. The guns keep firing, the Phalange radio says hundreds are homeless...
...main approach to "nature" -landscape painting being hopelessly old hat-was via anthropology: artists playing Robinson Crusoe or Man Friday under an umbrella of structuralist jargon. Here, the palm for silliness must go to a Dutchman named Krijn Geizen, who built a reed hut and set a tuna to smoke on a rack outside it. This piece of mock primitivism was intended to say something about survival, in homage to the fishermen of the Po delta; but since the tuna was not caught by the artist but bought in the Venice fishmarket, the project looked vicarious, like Marie Antoinette playing...
...Dave Cowens will follow Red out the front door, as is suspected currently. Maybe Dave Cowens and/or JoJo White will follow Red out the front door, as is also suspected, currently. Maybe then, the Boston fans will scorn the new ownership and Brown's dreams will go up in smoke. Maybe San Diego will again fail to support the new team and this whole affair will be one large, sad joke...