Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night, the hot young sparks fly off to town to steal some girls of tinder age. Six screams later, their sleigh is racing back to the farm with a baggage of "Sobbin' Women" aboard and a tumult of raging fathers behind. The brothers shout down an avalanche of snow behind them, blocking pursuit until spring, and barrel away home to a long winter's courtship...
...Reclamation Service and work on the new dam. Desperate Scenery tells the rough-and-rugged story of how a 60-mile wagon road was built over mountain country, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of supplies, plus men and horses, were transported to the dam site before snow blocked the routes, and of how, with temperatures ranging to 55° below zero, a crew of 300 put together the new Jackson Lake...
...Kooning's expressionistic abstractions of the 19403 looked like angry snarls of tar, snow, syrup and a little blood dexterously applied with a bent spoon. But lately, De Kooning has become obsessed with a creature he calls "woman." It bears some resemblance to the Mom made infamous by Author Philip Wylie. De Kooning's women (opposite) are certainly the most violent and perhaps the most powerful paintings in the entire Biennale. If the purpose of painting were, as some have claimed, simply the release of emotion, De Kooning would have to be accounted great...
...Everything Is O.K." Wood picked up their equipment, dug a flat ledge and pitched the tent. With Viereck's help, he dragged Argus to shelter and then tramped out a signal in the snow: HELP BROKEN...
...Poisson, daughter of a well-to-do businessman and created Marquise de Pompadour by her royal lover, arrived in the "rats' nests" in 1745, stayed at the court 20 years until her death at 42. Her figure seemed to be made wholly of nymphish curves: her skin was "snow-white," her eyes "the brightest, wittiest and most sparkling." She could act dance and sing, play the clavichord "to perfection," paint, draw, engrave precious stones, and spout about gardening, botany and natural history-"a more accomplished woman," says Author Mitford, "has seldom lived." The only interesting thing about her childhood...