Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this fellow's medieval predecessors. The most famous of his kind, France's devious voluptuary Nicolas Fouquet, was clapped into jail by Louis XIV, who rightly smelled a rat when he visited Fouquet's magnificent Vaux-le-Vicomte, a château that put the Sun King's palaces to shame. King Louis healed the insult by building Versailles...
...crept out of a training camp in Owing Mills, Md., carrying away not only the cleats and shoulderpads of the Baltimore Colts but also the trust and affection of their fans. When Baltimore arose the next morning, Colts owner Robert Irsay had ensconced their team in Indianapolis. The Baltimore sun and the News American responded with blaring headlines about "The Rape of Baltimore," and local talk shows haven't yet stopped recycling the anguish...
Residents of the area, known as Mid Cambridge, have charged that a bridge spanning Broadway would reduce sun light, create a traffic hazard and in general detract from the aesthetics of the neighborhood...
...ambition to be a masterpiece and is regularly taken for one, though its composition has the spottily grand look of an academic mistake. But the figure of Balthus's blond wife, hands stretched above her head, rising from the dark plateau into the zone of early-morning sun, is a prime lyric invention; and the color has a resonant, hallucinated distinctness that brings early Mird to mind. Balthus would eventually paint some of the best landscapes of his time. The pick of them, perhaps, is Larchant, 1939, with its luminous sheet of sky and its mellow, precise inter-lockings...
...Harvard Medical School professor serves as one of 18 scholars on the editorial board of Paragon House, a publishing firm owned by Revend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church...