Word: actes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distant way. The whites in Pale Fire, 1988, are not flat white but a subtle paste applied over a warm brown ground in rapidly varying touches, so that they have the visual elasticity of flesh. Scully is a conservative, measured colorist. His sense of art, the seemingly obsolete act of communicating by smearing mud on cloth, is anchored in the past. You can see traces of his idols throughout -- especially, in his liking for silvery grays, pinks and a constant regulating black, Velasquez...
SOUTH CAROLINA. While Arkansas' reform zeal is flagging, South Carolina seems to be catching its second wind. In June the legislature adopted "Target 2000," the second installment of the Education Improvement Act of 1984. The bill not only continues support for most of the act's original programs, it actually expands many of them. Says David Beasley, chairman of the house education and public works committee: "We've kept the heat on and the excitement rolling...
Events may yet force Solidarity off the back benches. Given the vast voter disillusionment exposed by the June elections, Kiszczak's government may be nothing more than an interim administration. Though elections are four years off, it is quite possible that barring a coup or some other unconstitutional act, Poland could bury Communism within a year. Then -- ready or not -- Solidarity may find itself at the helm, hunting for a way out of Poland's economic morass...
...someone like Williams in the Department of Education at all? And why is the position of assistant secretary of education still unfilled? Despite Bush's call for a governor's conference on education, despite his Educational Excellence Act, this state of limbo in the Department of Education refutes Bush's claims to be the Education President...
...that Bush or Cavazos have bad ideas about education. Or even that they have no ideas. Bush's Educational Excellence Act seems like a sound proposal for aiding our schools. And, as Governor Kean said in his speech just hours later, the governor's conference is an "exciting first step which shows that Bush is willing to take the lead...