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...decrease is the third straight since 1990. It comes one year after charges of misogyny among staff members at the Harvard Law Review and two years after the brutal murder of a female legal scholar near the Harvard campus...
...painter." He had no interest in what the French called la belle matiere, and when he did essay it -- as in a series of pseudo-pastoral kitsch- classical paintings in the manner of Renoir, done during World War II -- he subverted it; these hot, sluglike nudes are of a brutal vulgarity exceeded only by late Picabia, who may in fact have influenced them...
...practice, this naming of hurricanes. Yet anthropomorphizing nature's brutal forces somehow seems to help people cope with the otherwise incomprehensible devastation wreaked by these storms. So it was with Andrew, a ^ simple name for people to curse, fear, blame and remember. Andrew proved a most powerful, if petulant, child, rampaging across the Bahamas and the populous tip of southern Florida and into Louisiana's Cajun country, with strength enough to hoist trucks atop buildings, destroy houses and vaporize mobile homes, impale yachts on pier pilings and even strip paint off walls. With winds up to 164 m.p.h., Andrew proved...
George Bush sees his life as a series of "missions assigned" and "missions accomplished." Accordingly, he set several goals for himself at the Republican Convention in Houston. He needed to reunite his splintering party after a brutal primary campaign. If he couldn't explain exactly what he wanted to do in a second term, he at least needed to remind a majority of Americans why they voted for him in 1988. And he needed to shave roughly half of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's 25-point lead in the polls...
...Farrow. The day after she allegedly learned of her child's molestation, she made a date with the costume designer of Allen's next film -- not the behavior of a woman who believed her ex-lover and director to have preyed on her daughter. Farrow was a daft and brutal mother, the Allen camp said: she beat Soon-Yi and tore up her clothes in anger at the girl's affair. They whispered, as Soon-Yi finally said publicly, that the other children had fallen into "theft, alcohol, arrests, severe truancy and other symptoms...