Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your cover story "Holiday on Skis" [Dec. 25]: I do not argue with doctors who deny that the ultraviolet rays encountered while skiing have an aphrodisiac effect. However, the sheer sensual experience of the warm sun, snow spray in the face, weightless microseconds on a mogul, the symphony of wind blowing through pine forests, thrills of speed, danger and precision and not insignificantly, the form-fitting nature of ski clothing create in this skier a desire for more than a quiet evening with a good book...
...from outside, Kimbell Art Museum looks like a group of barrel vaults running horizontally across the flat terrain of Fort Worth. Five of the vaults are closed at the ends to form galleries, offices and storage space; their roofs, sheathed unexpectedly in lead, glisten like old pewter in the sun. The sixth is open, a portico opening generously toward the street (below, opposite). Inside the museum, this conversation of silvery tones resumes as the sun spills through a long slit in the roof where the halves of the vaults meet, and is diffused by a perforated deflector slung on yokes...
CHARLES PLAYHOUSE. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. At 7:30, mats Sat. and Sun...
...commercialization of this once sacred area, the native Formosans, once disdainful of modern ways, have sold out. Island-wide they are discriminated against economically and educationally. At Sun-Moon Lake they live in a small village on the route of boat tours. For $3.00 NT (7 1/2 cents) one of the girls, dressed in "native garb"-not unlike a Halloween costume from Woolworth's-will post with tourists for photos...
...families run a tiny shop selling souvenirs. As all the shops sell the same items, competition is brutal. Nevertheless, the Formosans are surviving. Their first literate generation is attending a small Catholic school offering the hope that they may overcome the social mores that banished them to Sun Moon Lake...