Word: surf
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...Gogh were tempered by his longing for concision and grace. Those who imagine that he just sat down in cornfields and let the landscape write itself through him are refuted by the actual sequence of his drawings. Some of his most vivid and impassioned-looking sketches-the coiling, toppling surf, the silent explosion of wheat stocks, the sun grinding in the speckled sky above the road to Tarascon-are in fact copies he made after his own paintings and sent to his fellow painters Emile Bernard and John Russell to show them what he had been...
...maybe they watched "Apocalypse Now" one time too many: or may be they didn't see it at all. Whatever, the third varsity crew members were sufficiently inspired by the infamous helicopter scene to include the inscription. "Eli Don't Surf' when they decorated the rock that overlooks the finish line with mysterious victory runes. The 3Vs walked around in incriminating clothing yesterday: red and white paint from the huge "H" on the rock marked the victors of Saturday night's combination eights contest...
...Mitterrand and Trudeau, the Queen of The Netherlands, the King of the Belgians-will assemble for the ceremonies before some of them go on to an economic summit in London. They will fly in helicopters over the famous beaches-Omaha, Utah and the rest. They will inspect the surf through which the invaders struggled 40 years ago, young amphibians buffeted by waves and torn by crossfires. Their landfall, in a chaos of metal and smoke and dead bodies, began the end of the thousand-year Reich...
...akin to guilt for having survived when death randomly took so many friends. At Omaha Beach, where the water's edge turned red from American blood, returning veterans remember the deafening roar of battle, the smoke and confusion. All they can hear now is the lap of a low surf, the keening of seagulls and occasionally the shouts of children playing on the beach. The puzzle is how to connect the remembered knot of constant fear, the moments of horror and exhilaration in combat, with the tranquil landscape beyond the beach. It is a vision by Edvard Munch imposed...
...took David campaigning with him. On June 4, 1968, the day of the California primary, Bobby took his son swimming in the surf off Malibu. A strong undertow seized the twelve-year-old and drew him out toward open water. Bobby Kennedy swam after the boy and saved...