Word: archness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the men blew away the Lions, Radcliffe did not fare as well, losing to arch-rival Dartmouth...
Moreover, some sophisticated Soviet observers reason that now is the time to make a deal because Reagan is in a unique position to achieve and then sell an arms-control agreement. His credentials as an arch anti-Communist would enable him to weather criticism from the right about any kind of deal. In addition, his immense popularity will help him persuade the American public to embrace any agreement he negotiates...
...work in this show, Pearblossom Hwy., 11-18th April 1986, sets them forth at full stretch. It is a scene both banal and grand: an intersection on the highway from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the yellow highway line plunging out to meet the horizon under a great arch of pale blue sky, dry low brush and gray clay dust on either side, the foreground a clutter of desultory trash, beer cans, markers, a vivid yellow road sign. It is neither ugly nor beautiful, but Hockney has given it real intensity as an image. Partly this...
...quartet of single friends in Atlanta who run a decorating business together, a sort of pre-mid-life Golden Girls. The show has a good cast (including Annie Potts and Dixie Carter) but an overload of formula gag writing ("Suzanne, if sex were fast food, there'd be an arch over your...
...profession that puts a premium on action shots, photojournalists have long turned out scenes with the same laissez-faire approach to composition. But in general, the exemplary pictures of the . camera-reporting tradition have bowed to pictorial convention, treating the edges of the frame like a proscenium arch around a quickly readable image. Anyone who doubts that this time-honored method can still be affecting need only look to David Burnett's elegant and straightforward pictures of minor league baseball. But Burnett is the odd man out in this show, where the prevailing tone is more hectic or quizzical...