Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...pool, I could look up and see all the tall, dwarfing white towers of Miami Beach. I wonder what I felt. Something indescribable. A plastic pool, plastic towers, but, high up, real stars. And, past the pool, a sudden drop to the beach itself. A big golden orange moon hanging above the ocean. Fierce waves crashing...
Dofending man's landing on the moon and the Apollo projects, Borman said that they fostered the technological supremacy and the scientific development of the United States...
Drained and Exhausted. Early one morning last week, Mishima turned in to his publisher the final portion of his quartet of novels, The Sea of Fertility. Named after one of the moon's cold, empty seas, the quartet describes the conflicts of Japan's hereditary aristocracy and the nouveau riche from 1912 to 1970, and portrays the barrenness that Mishima saw in contemporary life. In a letter written on Nov. 17 to Harold Strauss, his editor at Knopf in New York, Mishima said: "In it I have put everything I felt and thought about life and the world...
...tricks," she writes of modern churches. "Never has so much experimental structure been so decoratively misused. Never has the doctrine of free esthetic expression been so abused or engineering advances so superficially vulgarized for effect. There are exceptions, of course, but they are aggressively outnumbered by churches poised like moon rockets, synagogues of country-club luxe in jazzy concrete shells, and far-out flying saucer chapels...
...probing, inquisitive line that flowed from Klee's pen. He was an astounding draftsman, one of the virtuosos of the century. Whether tracing into cubist patterns the squares and towers of a Renaissance town (Italian City, 1928), or making a gay arabesque out of the contents of a moon-washed room (Still-Life: Plant and Window, 1927) or simply, in Klee's words, taking a walk by itself, the line fizzes with exuberance...