Word: brushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cleaning up TV, were lifted from the enemy camp, but most are being promoted through an array of presidential directives that cut the G.O.P. out of the picture. Says presidential historian Michael Beschloss: "Clinton is the first President to use Executive action the way a painter uses a brush: to slowly, carefully fill in parts of his own public image...
...compound, drums echoed from the surrounding hilltops, summoning 300 more combatants from nearby villages. While one group negotiated with Bordeau, another, armed with clubs, machetes and AK-47s, stormed into the church. Tutsi, women and children among them, fled through a rear door and into the surrounding papyrus brush. They were hunted down. Hutu severed a woman's hands and feet. They cut out a man' s heart, leaving a huge gash in his chest. Bordeau was handed a baby, still breathing but drenched in his mother's blood...
...ticket are two politicians moving to the middle who will try to depict the Other Guy as a closet extremist. Such is the situation in many states, including New Jersey, where Democratic Representative Bob Torricelli is trying to tar Representative Dick Zimmer with the Gingrich brush while Zimmer is dismissing Torricelli as an unreconstructed liberal. In North Carolina there is an ideological contest generously seasoned with revenge: Harvey Gantt is once again facing off against Jesse Helms, reprising their liberal- vs.-conservative alley fight of six years ago. These days, in part owing to Kerrey, some Democrats are envisioning what...
...relation between the paint surface and the imagined surface of the object (a rock, the side of a house, an apple) is astonishingly direct and candid. This doesn't come across in reproduction. It rises from the paint itself, that discreet paste in which every trace left by the brush seems to help create the impression of solidity, so that you feel you could pick the apple--which is both a rosy sphere of light and a ball as heavy as plutonium--off the table. And yet the surface is never closed, never overdetermined; that is part of the magic...
Bush said he and his fellow staffers are delighted by the coverage and now have to wait and see what comes of their brush with fame...