Word: surround
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specific experience than from isms. She did not go to Europe until she was 65. When she saw Mont Ste.-Victoire from Cezanne's studio above Aix-en-Provence, she characteristically called it "a poor little mountain" -- which it is, in a way, compared with the landscapes that surround her Ghost Ranch -- and wondered why so many words had been piled on it. Before her 30th birthday, in small watercolors of epic space like Light Coming on the Plains, 1917, she had become seraphically modernist without imitating cubism, fauvism or any other transatlantic recipes...
...like ghosts in the hallway of Mallory's basement apartment. The darkness is absolute. Not even the walls are visible, until the door to the kitchen is pushed open and the apartment is cast in a cold silver, late afternoon light admitted through a single kitchen window. Three chairs surround a formica $ table standing flush against a wall. The seats of the chairs are torn open, exposing a brown stuffing. Beside one of the kitchen chairs a gas pipe juts straight up three feet where an oven used to be. Mallory explains he has no use for an oven...
...MYTHS COMMONLY surround the image of an undergraduate education at Harvard. One is that the most meaningful college experiences are to be found outside the classroom. The other is that anything is possible, provided you take the initiative...
...Callaway as the dippy legislator, promises a biting look at the ways of Washington, but its political satire is toothless and its performers charmless. In 1st & Ten, the curvaceous team owner (Delta Burke) talks football as if she were reading a foreign language phonetically, and the gridiron goons who surround her (a womanizing quarterback, a dumb lineman named Bubba, an oily general manager in cahoots with the Mob) are well past sitcom retirement age. The bottom drawer in comedy's bargain basement, however, belongs to the new sitcoms showing up on basic cable. WTBS's Rocky Road, for example...
...NOTEBOOK: The Harvard JV team beat Brown, 1-0, on Julie Cohen's first-half goal...In the varsity game, two balls flew through the protective nets that surround the rooftop and into the parking lot five stories below...In the JV game, a ball slid into a drain pipe and also wound up in the parking lot...Midfielder Sharon Kosakowski played in both games...Harvard is 1-0-2 in games that have gone into double overtime and 1-1-1 on artificial turf......Harvard's final two games are on the road...