Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cleary, in his 18th year as Crimson hockey coach, number 300 could not have come at a better time. Harvard had not won a Beanpot since...
...walked into a Domino's Pizza shop in Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel about secret societies in an 18th century Parisian prison...
...years of his life, when -- sick and old and bitterly disappointed by the betrayal of the liberal Spanish constitution at the hands of that squat reactionary King, Fernando VII -- he moved to France, they became a continuous pessimism. He never idealized the Spanish proletariat: it was el populacho, the 18th century "mob," a many-headed beast capable of every atrocity and stupidity as well as sublime moments of collective courage...
...dark caverns Courbet painted in his native countryside, The Source of the Loue, 1864. The objectivity of Courbet's work connotes a deep and sensuous love of whatever he painted. Sometimes his portraits of dead birds and animals -- like the brilliant Girl with Seagulls, Trouville, 1865 -- hark back to 18th century prototypes like Oudry, but their pressing reality comes from Courbet's own love of hunting...
...often observed -- first about Giorgione, and so on through to the 18th century -- that the pastoral mode was harder to decipher than religious or historical painting. There is not much narrative precision in Watteau's fetes galantes: these little societies of the elect, privileged folk in their shining taffetas are not exactly allegories; they are elaborations of mood, in which every pleat of fabric on a woman's turned back seems to carry its aura of psychological subtlety. And in Giorgione's Tempest, to this day no one really knows what the nude woman, young soldier and lightning flash...