Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...head in silent contemplation; a woman comforts a girl in front of a sign exhorting students to have a safe summer. A boy who played sports with one victim and the brother of a second, and shared a class with a third, asked to describe them, can only summon up, "They were cool." Teenagers lack the public vocabulary for multiple death and massive sorrow. With some exceptions. "I feel like hell," snapped the sister of one victim. "How am I supposed to feel...
...wanted to be liked by everybody, and it succeeded. The Call to the Nations, which opened the show, recalled both the French-Canadian Cirque du Soleil, which was a creative consultant, as well as a Brazilian samba school. Yet the two songs were written by two distinctly American composers: Summon the Heroes by Academy Award winner John Williams and The Call to the Nations by Mickey Hart, the drummer for The Grateful Dead. For the national ceremony that followed, the music went to a moving gospel version of The Star-Spangled Banner by the 300-strong Centennial Choir...
...aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels." The aforementioned now rub elbows and knock heads in a novel that once more demonstrates the author's passion for place and his skill as a literary magician. How else should one describe a writer who moves effortlessly through time and who can summon ghostly characters from previous books to play full-blooded roles in his latest work...
...scoundrels.' "The aforementioned now rub elbows and knock heads in a novel that once more demonstrates the author's passion for place and his skill as a literary magician, says TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "How else should one describe a writer who moves effortlessly through time and who can summon ghostly characters from previous books to play full-blooded roles in his latest work?" Readers familiar with Kennedy's earlier work in 'Ironweed' and 'Billy Phelan's Greatest Game' will remember Edward Daugherty. Forgotten and senile by the 1930's in 'Billy Phelan', Daugherty is shown at the height...
...bright color-propped up against a dark brown basket that is painted with utter virtuosity, one stroke for every crescent of wicker. To see such passages (others are the lacy scribbles of wet black paint that define the soft body feathers) is to realize why Goya's ability to summon up a single form with a single gesture, fusing the brush mark to the form depicted, was such an inspiration to Edouard Manet half a century later. The stiffness of death is recorded in the bird's splayed legs, thrust out as if in a last convulsion...