Word: weatherized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What seems to be happening. Dean Fox said this week, is that students seek excuses when they're feeling slightly under the weather, instead of using the absence slip as the abnormal route it once...
...foreigner ever wins their hallowed trophy, it will be replaced in its case by the losing skipper's head. Robert E. (Ted) Turner III, alias "the Mouth " Terrible Ted" and "Captain Outrageous," is not worrying. Nor are the club's blue-blazered elders. For if winds and weather-and the portents-are right, Terrible Ted this week will begin a successful defense of the America...
...with Masks, 1953, with its repeated gridwork of leaves and cloves, alludes directly to Arabic tilework. But the other prototype was the vision of the natural paradise, exemplified since the 18th century by Tahiti. Matisse had gone to Tahiti in 1930, finding it "both superb and boring . . . There the weather is beautiful at sunrise and it does not change until night. Such immutable happiness is tiring." He dived off the reefs and never forgot the colors of the madrepores and the absinthe-green water; these appear in cut-outs like Polynesia, 1946, or The Bird and the Shark...
...season at a small town on Martha's Vineyard. The Wamponoag Indian tribe has inhabited Gay Head since at least 2270 B.B. They once owned the town's land; today they earn their keep primarily by running the stands stacked with cheap turquoise rings, moccasins, and drums. When cold weather discourages crowds of tourists, the Indians tighten their belts, earning money from shellfishing or from a few municipal jobs. Although the Wamponoag Indians still dominate Gay Head's population, they now shape their town with a small, but far wealthier, white community. The 200-person town is now known...
City officials said yesterday weather conditions this winter will primarily determine whether Cambridge decides to resume its towing contract with Ellery after the suspension expires December...