Word: laboredness
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It was some scoop. For 15 years, from 1970 to 1985, Wyeth had labored in secret on an enormous collection of works: 246 in all, including sketches, studies, drawings, 32 watercolors, twelve drybrush paintings and five temperas. Not even his wife was aware of the magnitude of the undertaking. Moreover...
And copious treasure too. Aided by mailboxes, divers labored continuously last week, bringing up more of the Whydah's riches. "There's a lot of work, a lot of hours," says Diver Todd Murphy, 28. "No weekends. No holidays."
His activities proved controversial among his countrymen. His plea for French unity in the face of an implacable enemy outraged warring factions. He dared suggest that the Vichy regime, which he "hated," had nonetheless saved France from "utter extermination" at the hands of the Third Reich. He feared the recriminations...
Some installments, more ambitiously, try to fashion an appreciation of the subject by combining biographical material with excerpts from his or her work. The results are uneven. An upcoming 2 1/2-hour show on Eugene O'Neill brings on Actors Jason Robards and Geraldine Fitzgerald, among others, to perform scenes from...
Aside from averting the June swoon, the biggest story in Boston is the arrival, from vastly different trajectories, of two of the best pitchers ever to wear the Red Sox uniform: Roger Clemens, 23, and Tom Seaver, 41. Last week, two days after being traded from the Chicago White Sox...