Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also praised the University's emphasis on public service--a topic of particular interest to the residents of Elmbrook, many of whom are involved in inner-city tutoring programs and summer service missions in Mexico. He added that would like to see similar public service programs created at Harvard...
...editions of Doctor Zhivago and Ben- Hur, and 20th Century Fox will put out the Star Wars trilogy, as well as the recent smash Die Hard, in the full-frame format. Even E.T. was letter- boxed on disc, and Spielberg's earlier 1941, when it arrives on disc this summer, will be in wide screen and contain some 20 minutes of previously deleted smash-and-grab comedy footage. All this feverish cinema archaeology confirms that laser disc is not only the best way to see movies but also the best way to see a lot more of them...
...Liberal lady commentator from the Washington Post walks up the White House drive carrying bright red tote bag, a souvenir from last summer's Democratic Convention. Big braying donkey is stamped on the bag's side. Reminder of late Speaker Sam Rayburn's caution: "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it." Footnote to the above: on any given day there are three times as many jackasses in Washington as there are Democrats...
...Boston Winter." The words conjured up magic for me during last year's long, hot Washington summer. Twenty below zero, 50 below with windchill. Foot upon foot of snow blanketing the ground weekly. Frozen lips, frozen hair, frozen contact lenses. Snow shovels. Icicles. Frozen water pipes...
...works such as Summer, Winter and particularly The Triumph of Painting on Parnassus, Testa depicts the virtue and worthiness of both artistry and of the outsider artist, like himself, who will not live the life of worldly pleasures. And his preoccupation with the macabre in earlier works, depicting the death of children and the plague, shows Testa's concern with the encroaching effects of realism as both an artistic style and as a burden to his own unhappy life...