Word: strand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Percy elevates the stuff of soap opera to a medieval morality tale. The parallels between Arthurian chivalry, Southern gentility and Christian militancy are in fact a single strand in Percy's fabric. He is a severely and sincerely Christian novelist who may speak from the fictional mouth of a potential madman to acknowledge the difference between a Cassandra and a crank...
...remind you a bit of temple bells shivering in the wind. Then the percussion enters, muted yet enriching the sound, and finally the melody--simple and repetitive but constantly branching off in unexpected and spontaneous harmonies. You trace the saxophone's part much as you are drawn by a strand of gold in a piece of cloth. It glows and enriches the fabric and the fabric, (or musical backing) in turn, keeps the shimmer from ever becoming brassy...
...Rather than face exposure of her multiple lives, Joan plans a fake accidental death by drowning. Thereafter, she hopes to resurface in a new life -one that will be "neat and simple, understated, even a little severe, like a Quaker church or a basic black dress with a single strand of pearls...
Died. Paul Strand, 85, American photographer who created "candid camera," or unposed photographs, by attaching a brass lens to the side of his camera and working at right angles to fool his unsuspecting subject; in Orgeval, France. Strand broke with the soft-focus romantic tradition, aiming instead at social realism and commitment. His series of still lifes of New England, the Maine coast and Western towns, as well as such famous photographs as the Blind Woman and The Family, attest to his goal of seeing "something outside myself -always. I'm not trying," he explained, "to describe an inner...
However, according to dossier number two on Malek (prepared largely by Malek himself) he is at heart a can-do management expert who, he claims, spent only about one per cent of his time on "responsiveness" while at the White House and CREEP. Watergate was the last strand in a web that entrapped an efficiency-minded businessman and his brilliant ideas, according to this picture. Malek was, he points out, one of the few Nixon aides to avoid indictment. "I still don't think anything I did was illegal," he says...