Word: sentinels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoulders, waist, pelvis and thighs that would surface in his own figures from the late '20s on. Cezanne's ponderous and sculptural Bathers spoke to his own obsessions with the reclining figure. Archaic sculpture of every kind, especially Mayan and Aegean, fortified his lifelong interest in totems and sentinel figures; and then there were Donatello and Michelangelo, the painted figures of Masaccio and, perhaps most challenging to him in his maturity, the sculptures of Giovanni Pisano in Siena and Pisa, not far from the marble quarries at Forte dei Marmi, where he took to working during the summers...
...larger evil. "It's an absolute shame that the Supreme Court has to take such a gruesome crime to make a social statement," says Deputy Kings County Planner Bill Zumwalt, who had been a member of Marlene's high school class. Joan Pegues, assistant city editor of the Hanford Sentinel, puts it more simply: "When you say 'Hillery' around here, people turn purple...
...goings-on in the Examiner's newsroom often sound more interesting than anything the reporters cover. After Hearst hired David Burgin, 46, away from the Orlando Sentinel last year to be the Examiner's new editor, Burgin signed up Columnists Thompson and Cyra McFadden, author of The Serial, a send-up of Marin County mores. Hearst wooed away Warren Hinckle, an eccentric Chronicle columnist who bludgeons miscreants, real and imagined, in print and never goes anywhere without his basset hound, Bentley. When Frank McCulloch, 66, a veteran journalist who had just retired as executive editor of the California- based McClatchy...
States, cities and towns have already had to cut education and public safety budgets to the bone, but the federal government continues to purchase "the likes of toilet of toilet seats for $500, pencils for $100 and coffeemakers for $3000," Girouard told the Fitchburg-Leominster Sentinel and Enterprise...
...clear nights airline pilots can see the shimmering marble flanks of the Washington Monument for 25 miles, and they bank into their landing pattern as the faithful sentinel looks on. Laid out as a city of circles and curves, Washington can be a bewildering maze to visitors. But they can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness...