Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Audubon Society Book of Water Birds (Abrams; 256 pages; $35) presents enthralling photographs of creatures that seem made for metaphor. They are clouds hovering pink and white across the surface of a lake, dive bombers plummeting to strike seaborne prey, bankers in tuxedoes posing in comic solemnity at a social event on an ice floe. But the easy, intelligent prose of Authors Les Line, Kimball L. Garrett and Kenn Kaufman allows the real creatures -- from the lava heron of the Galapagos to the bald eagle -- to emerge from the metaphors in full dimension. Not all the faces are pretty...
...compound of choice around here is diversity, and it's everywhere. Harvard doesn't take a new-math approach to its primary lesson: you learn because you have to learn. When your lab partner is a water-skiing champion, and the guy you eat lunch with happens to be the son of a former governor of some western state, and when things like this happen all the time, you cannot help but learn to accomodate diversity. Fifteen minutes ago I learned that Mel Torme wrote The Christmas Song. Did you know that Mel Torme wrote The Christmas Song? Broadening like...
...hundred missiles will be given to Iran in a secret arms deal to win access to a warm-water port. The Iranians, the Soviet reasoning goes, will be so greedy for missiles, that they won't quibble over the removal of the nuclear warheads. The Soviets see this as a potential PR master-stroke that willprove once and for all that communists are smarter than we are--after all, we provided the Iranians with weapons that really worked...
Then one day he had walked into a restaurant and asked for a glass of water, and the waitress looked at him blankly and said, "We don't serve Negroes here." After the many snubs and insults he had received all his life, something snapped. Jimmy threw a mug of water at the waitress and then ran out, terrified because "I had been ready to commit murder from the hatred I carried in my heart...
Likewise, one could hardly ask for a better short introduction to Constable than the one this show gives us -- not only the fresh landscapes of the pastures of Dedham Vale and the sparkling little manifesto of a painting, Water-meadows at Salisbury, 1829, rejected by the Royal Academy of Arts as "a nasty green thing," but also the cloud studies and several of his grandest oils, such as The Lock, 1822-24. There are also such painters as John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer, Francis Towne and Thomas Girtin, whose images of landscape exhale the sweet breath of exact vision through...