Word: assuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's more, a sense of humor--even of irreverence--began to seep into religious imagery. Witness a marvelous ink painting of vegetables by Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800). You can read it, with pleasure, as a supremely assured market still life (Jakuchu was, in fact, a vegetable wholesaler before he...
Mobil spent millions of dollars trying to convince us that it had the cleanest gasoline, one that made your engine run smoother. Union Camp spent millions of dollars trying to convince us that it had the cleanest paper, Great White, that made your copier run smoother. In the end, few...
Talking With becomes an unlikely acting tour de force whose real star is a risk-taking, assured director.
1950s The U.S. and the dollar reign supreme. The boomer economy fuels construction of homes, schools and highways. e bad news. mutual assured destruction (MAD).
After the Gulf War, Iraqi rebels grouped themselves into a coalition called the I.N.C., believing that the U.S. would back them. CIA money started flowing in and later, in a private letter from Vice President Al Gore, the Administration assured I.N.C. president Ahmed Chalabi of its commitment, promising "whatever additional...