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...freshmen, the last time the Harvard hockey team made the playoffs, you were torn between not thinking at all about the opposite sex or thinking about it all the time. And reading Johnny Tremain. Seventh grade, of course...
Some stretches of Tom Green County look like the Argonne Forest after a month of shelling: dead black mesquite trees, torn out of the ground, lie in a vast twisted litter. Vultures like to sit in sinister profile upon the dead trees; they give the scene an eerie stylized hellishness. This particular mesquite has been the victim of chaining and spraying: crop-dusting planes swoop in low over the range and spray a chemical called TORDON 225E onto the mesquite. A year or more later, a pair of bulldozers about a hundred yards apart make their way across the same...
...ended military commitment to a losing cause. So far, the Administration has done little to back up its most important contention, namely that the real U.S. aim in El Salvador is not a military victory but the political and economic framework needed for democracy to flourish in a strife-torn and bitterly impoverished region...
...physical and emotional exercises, Strasberg taught his pupils to forgo external acting tricks and "internalize" roles, drawing on reservoirs of their own experience and feeling. Strasberg's disciples called him "Rabbi," "Pope" and "the ultimate shrink," and swore by him. His detractors, who accused him of starting "the torn T shirt school of acting," swore at him. Said Producer David Merrick: "You can always tell Lee's students-they're the ones you can't hear beyond the third row." Artistic director of the Actors Studio since 1948, Strasberg also directed such Broadway hits as Clash...
...woody terrain, the castles, cities fields rivers and the sea. He is famous for glorifying trees and windmills making these subjects the principle figures of his works. In A Blasted Elm with a View of Egmond aan Zee the city serves as a backdrop to the twisted and torn elm in the foreground. Ruisdael's most famous painting. The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, may be as close to portraiture as Rusidael comes--with a three quarter profile of a windmill. The symbolism reveals his conviction that man is subordinate to nature, and even man's creation is lifeless without...