Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director of Alien knows about hostile environments; the director of Blade Runner knows how to mix sleaze and sleek; the director of Legend knows about the perils of passion. Scott is also an ace stylist, and set loose in New York City he creates a Deluxe color version of an Old Hollywood vision: Manhattan in the '40s, with its twin thrills of grandeur and menace. The sidewalks gleam like a Bakelite floor. A hired gun jogs into a Fifth Avenue foyer...
...oversize jeans, the sailors were bound by the wrists with plastic handcuffs, their ankles were tied with cord, and each crewman was put on a cot in the ship's vehicle-storage room. On Saturday they were flown to Oman and released to the International Red Crescent (the Islamic version of the Red Cross) for repatriation. Their ill-fated ship was packed with explosives and scuttled in deep water off Bahrain...
Zurbaran's version comes right from the rhetorical heart of the Counter- Reformation. Dark, admonitory and raw, it seems overwhelmingly real in every detail, from the coarse weave of the woolen habit (with a frayed hole at the elbow, emblematic of poverty, brilliantly accentuated with a few impasto flicks of white light on the dangling threads to give a hint of contrast to * the massive carving of the rest of the forms) to the shrouded face whose eyes Zurbaran loses in blackness to suggest the hermetic nature of the saint's vision. His gaping mouth is doubled in the gaping...
...York and New England telephone companies. Since last year, more than 1 million copies of Southwestern's New York Yellow Pages have been distributed. The 816-page book is a more compact alternative to the listings contained in two separate NYNEX Yellow Pages directories -- the consumer version and the business-to-business edition -- which together run to almost 4,000 pages...
With a 30-member Board of Overseers, it is not unreasonable to expect one undergraduate to sit on the board. After all, Wesleyan, Berkeley and many other college have students sitting on their version of Harvard's corporation...