Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...males really are better, on average, at certain mathematical tasks. If this tempts you to shunt all the girls back to home ec, you probably need remedial work in the statistics of "averages" yourself. Just as some women are taller and stronger than some men, some are swifter at abstract algebra. Many of the pioneers in the field of X-ray crystallography -- which involves three- dimensional visualization and heavy doses of math -- were female, including biophysicist Rosalind Franklin, whose work was indispensable to the discovery of the double-helical structure...
...consider the categorical, rightbased argument, which includes the constitutional right of free press and the more abstract concept of the public's "right to know." Free press is serious business. It is legally protected and vital to our open society. And it is in no way abridged by keeping television cameras out of trial courts...
American Modernist Barnett Newman's giant abstract painting Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III was the pride of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum before a vandal slashed it in 1986. At the time, the painting was valued at $3.1 million. Last August, after U.S. art restorer Daniel Goldreyer repaired the damage for a fee of $300,000, Who's Afraid was again put on display. Now Dutch art experts are seeing red. Amsterdam art historian Ernst van de Wetering has charged that Goldreyer covered the entire canvas using a roller rather than reproducing Newman's brushstrokes...
...this is not an abstract parlor conversation about the differences between the sexes. The events of 1991 may have been unusual in their celebrated luridness, but they raised basic issues that touch everyone's life. A few observers noticed that in the wake of the Thomas-Hill confrontation, the analysis of the Palm Beach trial was slightly more nuanced, more sophisticated in its discussion of so charged an issue as acquaintance rape. The politics may have been vicious, but the Senate passed and the President signed a civil rights bill that will finally allow victims to collect punitive damages...
Most artists consider the destruction of their work a tragedy. Photographer Brett Weston has always considered it a necessity. Best known for haunting semi-abstract nature studies in the tradition of his famous father Edward, Weston vowed for years to destroy his negatives so that others could not make new prints from them after his death...