Word: banishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rival nature? Did Mondrian envy God? Or perhaps he meant something less Luciferian: that nature, to the artist, is like carnal desire to the saint. It is a trap, a lower substitute for higher ecstasy, an occasion of sin. He knows it is beautiful, but he must still banish it from his art (as Plato urged the banishment of the poet from the ideal republic) because it provokes irrational thoughts and undisciplined emotions...
...survivors of the Long Island and New Jersey massacres know that well enough, or they soon will. But the courts have given them a way to confront their nightmare and relieve their pain, even if they can't banish the memory...
...City residents who recently told a newspaper poll that they opposed accepting American aid. Nor did many Mexicans seem to want foreign investors back. ``Flight capital has turned into vampire capital that has severely bled our economy,'' said a statement from Mexico's manufacturing chamber of commerce. ``We must banish it and never depend on it again.'' Whatever impact the bailout finally has on Mexico, the era of fevered investment in emerging markets has cooled...
...years ago. Air Force Maj. Gen. Everett Pratt, Jr., commander of all U.S. air forces in the Gulf region, told TIME's Thompson the U.S. could use F-15E and F16 fighter jets to enforce the zone with no trouble. The latest proposal reportedly floated by the Clinton Administration: banish the Republican Guard, but let the other three regular Army units stay in southern Iraq...
...final, dramatic sting of a death foretold by Carter's personality, the pressure to be first where the action is, the fear that his pictures were never good enough, the existential lucidity that came to him from surviving violence again and again -- and the drugs he used to banish that lucidity. If there is a paramount lesson to be drawn from Carter's meteoric rise and fall, it is that tragedy does not always have heroic dimensions. "I have always had it all at my feet," read the last words of his suicide note, "but being me just...