Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high priority. Two summers ago Cooperson went on an archaeological dig in Jordan. He recounts fasting all day, waking up at 3:30 a.m. to pray, and learning the many required phrases of social interchange. "Something specific is said when one takes a shower, or drinks a glass of water. Also, they recite alot of poetry instead of telling anecdotes like we do in this country...
Hoping to finish the job of cleaning up America's lakes and rivers, Congress this year unanimously passed an $18 billion clean-water bill that by 1994 would have removed 85% of all solid and inorganic matter from U.S. sewage. Just because a bill is popular on Capitol Hill does not make it so with Ronald Reagan. He refused to sign it last week, saying it was triple the amount the Government proposed...
...transparent Turkish blouse is rendered by a few luscious strokes of white over the flesh, for instance, or in the sliding knot of green and black shapes that defines the leg of the armchair. When Matisse saw the glitter of light on a band of water, he wanted to get it right, along with the curlicues of wrought iron between his eye and the Baie des Anges, and the peculiar Moorish dome of a pier pavilion, and the curl of a dressing- mirror frame, and the flat black cover of a notebook on the vanity, and the way a scrim...
...density of Large Landscape, Mont Alban, 1918, is an amalgam of Courbet and Corot, though the slow, wristy drawing that drives the eye round the curve of the road and follows the slant of the windblown pines is entirely Matisse's own. The modulation of silvery grays (jug of water, belly of sole) with a few touches of red within the ambient - darkness of Still Life, Fish and Lemons, 1921, accentuates a lesson Matisse had learned from Manet: that black, far from signifying the absence of color, can read as a suave and powerful hue. Matisse's work, seen...
...make a second trip. Consequently, their bookbags are very heavy, insuring a daily upper-body work out. Just a few of the items a Quadling must carry on his voyage downwind: books, pens, passport, travelers checks, sleeping bag, English-Riverese/Riverese-English dictionary, 110v/220v electrical converter, Lomotil and distilled water...