Word: actualizations
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...lights upon Pollock's contemporaries--Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman--the anointed gladiators of the American avant-garde. The names are changed, but their vanities and treacheries and barroom intellectual brawls are pretty much as we know them. As for Hope, she resembles Pollock's actual wife, the steadfast Lee Krasner, though not in every detail, especially after McCoy's death, when she marries Guy Holloway, a composite of Pop artists from the '60s, who never quite comes to life...
...lean arc of his body and the feral escarpments of his face, with its "lovely low-relief episodes of muscle." If this is a novel in which people think and talk, it's a frisky one all the same. "I'm not terribly up on the actual sex lives of these artists," Updike admits, "except that they were sexy and they suffered from a lot of spare time." And as he does with many things, he manages to make the most of that...
...charge of assault does not necessarily imply actual physical violence, only the threat thereof...
...force? Well, most of the equipment shortfalls plaguing the E.U. are the same ones NATO has identified. "Getting airlift helps both the E.U. and NATO," says a European diplomat at NATO. "The concepts are complementary." Others aren't quite so sure. Though the NATO force is geared for actual combat rather than the lower-intensity peacekeeping missions the E.U. envisions, says Rob de Wijk, a security expert at the Clingendael Institute in the Hague, Washington's proposal is "a clear attempt to prevent Europe from going its own way" by committing its resources to the alliance. A similar conflict surfaced...
...movie stirred mild dismay among the Buddhist faithful in Nong Khai, home of the actual fireballs. But the ITV documentary has sparked a full-fledged furor. Local politicians have threatened to sue ITV for more than $23 million; incensed residents staged a protest march; and Laos' ambassador to Thailand, Hiam Promjan, said his country was "shocked" by the claim. Real or fake, there seems to be little doubt about the incendiary properties of the fiery orbs...