Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beard's Roman Women is a rarity in that very few novels are illustrated (John Gardner's Sunlight Dialogues springs to mind as another exception). Interspersed throughout the book are clusters of photographs of Rome: rain beading on a window, sepia-colored church steeples; Roman street life, a few statues. While pleasant enough to look at, David Robinson's prints are sacrificed to a lost cause. Beard's Roman Women will not be saved by a handful of prints, whether Robinson's or Holbein's, for it is a shallow and poorly written exercise by a novelist...
...power production without filling huge tracts of land with reflectors or photovoltaic cells. Even legal technicalities must be resolved before use of solar energy can become practical. A study by Arthur D. Little suggests that the courts might be required to decide whether everyone has an equal right to sunlight, a question that will certainly arise the first time someone tries to put up a building that casts a shadow on a neighbor's solar collector...
...course on a lake and in it Sam sees the silvery fish he wants to touch. He's told he can't have them. Otis, who had sailed on the lake as a young man with his wife, looks at it on the Fourth of July to see the sunlight reflected and tells his counselors, "There's your fireworks. Right there...
Rays of late afternoon sunlight angled against an off-white wall. Ali, who wore black, had positioned himself in darkness...
...empty of traffic except for a line of diplomatic cars. Dominating the scene were two giant black-and-gold-draped portraits of the Chairman. Chinese mourners, forming a silent wave of gray and blue, slowly climbed the broad steps leading into the Great Hall, moving from the bright afternoon sunlight beneath the twelve massive concrete columns and the army guard at the black-bordered entrance...