Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behind her in the studio. The mirror reflects her back and, beyond that, the painter, whose posture recalls the image of the distant chamberlain at the end of Velazquez's long chamber. And yet, once you have figured out its setup, seen that the window with its blurred blaze of wintry light is actually a reflection in the mirror, the sense of spatial enigma drops away. You are left with a plain rendition in rather liquid paint of a girl in a red cardigan and an artist in a mustard- colored shirt. The Velazquez references sink back, as they...
...conference recently, Harriman arranged for her to address an international meeting on women's issues. She is transparently proud of her granddaughter Marina Churchill, who is a London barrister. When asked if she would lead an independent life like Marina if she were starting out now, the blue eyes blaze: "Would I? Would I?" Yes, you can bet she would...
Unending war has become an occupation force, seizing village after village of Bosnia and Herzegovina in its vicious grip. Across trenches and rubble- strewn no-man's-lands reminiscent of World War I, Bosnian and Serb soldiers blaze away on dozens of small battlefields. TIME photographer James Nachtwey spent the past two weeks on one of those battlefields, between Brcko and adjacent Muslim hamlets in northern Bosnia...
...hopes of defusing neo-Nazi violence, Germany's parliament voted overwhelmingly to tighten the country's liberal immigration laws, which had allowed about 1,000 foreigners to enter Germany each day. Despite the vote, suspicious fires broke out in several buildings housing refugees. One blaze killed five Turks, including two young girls, and injured...
...death count in a fire at a toy factory near Bangkok passed 200, the worst ever in a factory blaze...