Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ACcused of is good intentions. George Bush imputes good intentions to the antipoverty efforts of the 1960s and '70s as a preface to saying they've backfired. Bush's Republican rival, Patrick Buchanan, then trumps him by pre-emptively tarring any new antipoverty efforts with the same brush. "In the wake of Los Angeles," Buchanan declares, "everyone has a 'solution' to the 'problem.' And these solutions come from earnest and well-intentioned men and women." Officer, stop that man! He's armed with good intentions...
...King David's Letter (1654). At root it is a Titianesque conception, heir to those sumptuous Venetian nudes; but Rembrandt avoids idealism, suffuses the real imperfect body with thought and a sense of moral reflection, re-creates the structure of flesh in terms of an amazing directness of "rough" brush marks. We think of paintings like this or the later Kenwood Self-Portrait (circa 1665), with its sketchy construction (arcs in the background, a near Cubist flurry of angular brush marks to indicate palette and brushes), as being a long way from the Italian Renaissance, but in fact they...
Usually, she is the one to brush off criticism. "That's the price of success," she says. She knows that the person out front must absorb the most blows. She knows she has to handle the unrealistic expectations and frustrated disappointment of the Palestinian public; if the peace process fails, her $ political future, even she herself, would be in danger. She knows that hard- liners who oppose the negotiations take it out on her. "They try to attack the person, not the issues," she says. She knows a lot of it is envy, from rivals who wonder why they...
...transformed theater. A mound rose from the center, surrounded by what appeared to be flexible silver stalactites with flat circles attached at the ends. These "decorations" turned out to be an innovative--if uncomfortable--form of audience seating. During the course of the play, cast members tended to brush past the swings, sending the audience spiralling around. The production definitely broke down the barrier which separates audience from performer, as this reviewer discovered when a partially dressed actor did his best to masturbate against...
EVEN BEFORE HIS LATEST BRUSH WITH ETERNITY, Yasser Arafat was described by allies and enemies alike as the Middle East's ultimate survivor. His 23-year tenure as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization has been marked by repeated political defeats, accidents and assassination plots. So after his plane was reported missing over Libya last week, political leaders restrained themselves from dwelling on what life might be like without...