Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history, had broken down for Bell--time became irrelevant to the text of events that private myth, the personal subtext of events, had replaced. Down the wet streets of Cambridge Bell walked, but he walked, careless of time and of history, down into the fading gray all-nite movie theatre pool hall used car lot out front of Dreamland, a Jungian slide show punctuated by snatched conversations and bits of song, run by the Prince Emmanuel himself, down...
When the homeless Black accordion player whom Arthur briefly befriends sings "Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven" while dancing sopping wet outside a sleazy restaurant we get the message. The camera pans over the depressed faces of dining customers--and the lush orchestration conjures up images of black-tie dinner dances--and we get it again. By the time the set rolls back to reveal a giant montage of famous depression photos, Ross might as well have splashed a garish "ironic, get it?" across the screen...
...usual assortment of puzzles and brainteasers. Perhaps on the theory that people are just plain tired of landscapes and hockey players, thought, the move in puzzles this year seems to be toward the impossible. One line--which includes a puzzle of writhing earthworms--boasts identically shaped pieces. Another, the "Wet Paint" Puzzle, fits together to make a "shiny, wet-looking, irregularly shaped puddle of paint." Definitely for the man who already has everything else...
...Yard, trees snapped in front of University Hall and by Wadsworth House; several others were bent over double under the weight of the wet snow...
Around twelve o'clock the First Snow's joke became clear. Stragglers from Saturday night parties found the way home quietly romantic, streetlights acknowledging in amused yellow beams that they, too knew the joke. The First Snowmen were built after the First Snowfights, and snow angel-makers stripped off wet jeans to slide into warmer repose...