Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Suvero came to New York from California in 1957 and settled in a rambling market building in Lower Manhattan. From its steep roof, a panoply of bridges, rigging and wharves unfolds. This is his sculptural landscape−as the marble quarries of Serravezza are Henry Moore's. The Manhattan docks have furnished both the material and the imagery for his work: the gray, salt-pickled balks of timber; their ponderous iron bolts, cleats and straps; the explicit logic of big practical structure. Pieces like Hankchampion (1960) are inseparable from that context. Its salvaged wooden beams, bolted together and strung...
What's a detective story without a chase scene? Bullitt, showing this weekend at Winthrop House, without any doubt earns a 9.5 (on a scale of ten) for its chase scene featuring Steve McQueen, careening cars and the incredibly steep hills of San Francisco. McQueen's portrayal of a lone-wolf cop battling both criminals and his superiors shouldn't be missed, and Robert Vaughn, of Man From U.N.C.L.E. fame, makes an unusual appearance as the Ambitious Young...
...value of life and the dignity of mankind." Part of this admiration undoubtedly stems from Montale's mastery of the doom-filled Eliotic metaphor ("All our life and all its labors spent/ Are like a man upon a journey sent/ Along a wall that's sheer and steep and endless, dressed/ With bits of broken bottles on its crest"). Part is due to the writer's stoic career. Like an earlier Nobel laureate, Albert Camus, Montale was a bitter antiFascist. His quiet refusal to truckle to Mussolini cost him a sinecure as library executive. Throughout World...
Hundreds of Basques struggled up a steep slope to the burial place every day last week. Women left flowers, young peasants took photographs, priests led small groups in prayer. None of the 100 policemen occupying the town-"the Spanish," residents called them-dared remove the red, white and green Basque flag that covered the rocky grave...
Each year, the approximately 40 team members, have had to pay at least $20 in dues towards ammunition and upkeep. In the past, the team has elected not to enter Ivy League competition because travel costs would be too steep...