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Shimmering Sun. In 1773, Wright traveled to Italy and discovered the shimmering Italian sun. When he returned to England, the drama of nature replaced that of scientific investigation on his canvas. The 1790 Italian Landscape with its verdant hills touched with lavender is one of many done from recollection. If it lacks some of the vigor of Wright's candlelit scenes it is sophisticated enough for its time. The slightly arbitrary colors show a concern with pattern rather than strict representation. Whole hillsides are brushed in as relatively flat-areas set against the equally flat cliffs or gorges, both...
Little besides geography links the four countries that make up modern-day Indochina-Cambodia, Laos, North and South Viet Nam. For 20 centuries, neither foreign conquerors nor home-grown dynasts have ever managed to persuade the peoples of the verdant, fertile peninsula to collect themselves into a single nation. Indeed, long before the present struggle engulfed them, their differences had led to a history of prolonged and tangled conflicts...
...cherry blossoms, a full moon reflected in the still waters of the imperial moat. Manhattan-style muggings are virtually unknown. Still, the city's main problem, says Mayor Ryokichi Minobe, is "too many people." New York City, with 128 sq. ft. of park space per resident, is a verdant paradise compared with Tokyo, which has 7 sq. ft. Real estate values have risen 670% in a decade in some parts of town, and now rival Manhattan's?despite fears that anything built on the land may one day come tumbling down. Mild tremors hit the city almost every...
...down the first-act curtain and the house with that speech. Beyond discipline of craft and a reverence for tradition, the English theater retains the renown of greatness because it has behind it an unseen but not an unheard god, the English language. This wonder of wonders is a verdant isle of beauty, a tiara of crystalline delight, a font of wit and wisdom, a burnished mirror of the mind. Born to a noble tongue, Maggie Smith serves it nobly...
ONCE, long ago in the verdant land of New York's Flushing Meadow, there lived a band of sportsmen who got together often to play the ancient game of baseball. They were called the Mets. They were also called the Amazin' Mets, because they did not play baseball very well. They were, as everyone knows, terrible. But the people of Flushing Meadow loved them; they loved the antics performed by the Amazin's and they loved their names: Marvelous Marv Throneberry, Hot Rod Kanehl, Choo Choo Coleman. The people went to Shea Stadium, where the Mets booted...