Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cezanne was, from that point on, a great portraitist, one of the best the world has seen, especially of himself. His self-portraits invite comparison with those of Rembrandt, and the best of them justify it. He begins, in his own images, as a wild man, a solitary, an uncouth glaring peasant with greasy hair massed on either side of the pale dome of a bald head; he ends, in his last years, as a kind of sage. Between the extremes is a painting like the Self-Portrait (Portrait of the Artist with a Rose Background), with its powerfully modeled...
...past two years, Princeton had beaten Harvard, handing them their only Eastern loss in the 1994-95 season. This year, when the 400-yard freestyle relay team pulled themselves out of the water after scratching out the Tigers by half a second, the team went wild. The final meet score: Harvard 146, Princeton...
...Harvard, once at Radcliffe, and our classes became partially co-ordinate (a more dignified word than coeducation) with Harvard. We took notes now amidst a sea of V-12 white-suited sailors and the navy uniformed ROTC, and sometimes they copied what we wrote. I remember Professor Payson Wild commenting on the results of a final exam in international relations: The Radcliffes scored on average 10 points higher, but the Harvards' bluebooks were more interesting to read...
...disease and could provide a substitute for the rainbow. Meanwhile, the Montana-based Whirling Disease Foundation, which is helping to coordinate the fight, has landed a big-name supporter in TV mogul (and part-time Montanan) Ted Turner. For streams like the Colorado and the Madison, where the wild-rainbow population is in free fall, the hope is that it may not be too late...
RICHARD WOODBURY, TIME's Denver bureau chief, flew to Bozeman, Montana, last week to report on the mysterious parasite that is killing off the Rocky Mountain West's famous wild rainbow trout. In the past two years, Woodbury has ranged all over the Rockies--from New Mexico to Wyoming--documenting life in what is now called the New West but which Woodbury remembers less grandly from reporting a 1980 cover story about the region's last big boom. "The difference now is that every facet of the growth explosion is much larger," he says. "The mountain states are choking...