Word: archly
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...that has led to a political resurgence of hard-liners grouped around National People's Congress chairman Li Peng, China's number two leader, who wants reforms slowed down rather than speeded up (as China's entry into the World Trade Organization would require). The fact that it was arch-reformist Premier Zhu Rongji who issued some of the strongest threats yet against Taiwan on Wednesday may be a sign of the growing conservative strength within China's leadership. And that could be bad news for the entire reform project...
...devoted to expelling illusion as a fraud, a lie and a cheat on the deeper impulses of art, one can easily see why Dali's illusionism was so bitterly attacked as mere trickery--an imposture made even worse by Dali's flagrant preference for Raphael and even the arch-academic Meissonier over Matisse or Mondrian, and by his impertinent way of calling true-believer modernists les cocus du vieil art moderne, the cuckolds of old modern art. Dali flew into such flak right from the beginning of his career: in 1929 the avant-gardist critic Efstratios Teriade complained that Dali...
Theoretically, Harvard should be able to dispose of both Columbia and Cornell this weekend, thus paving the way to the season-ending showdown with arch-rival Dartmouth...
...ended with a bended-knee proposal and a civil ceremony under a giant floral arch that could have come from Godzilla's funeral. Friends, this is why God gave us eyesight. It was a gross spectacle in too many ways to name, degrading, if not to the 50 lovelies who showed up--who after all got a national TV debut with only a 2% chance of having to marry some desperate Croesus--then to every other woman who chooses a mate. (Not to mention men: try pitching a special called Who Wants to Marry a Sweet Guy with a Decent...
Hanging Up has the perky pace and the arch attitudes of a comedy. Everyone looks as if he or she is about to deliver a funny line. It's only after 20 expectant minutes or so that you realize you haven't laughed yet. And that the hope for humor--as opposed to frazzle, which soon gives way to frenzy--is growing dimmer...