Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shrug; how they writhe in pain; how the dead sprawl. Hence the vividness of Abraham's gesture in The Sacrifice of Isaac, holding his wailing son down on a rock like a man about to gut a fish, even though the landscape behind them is Venetian in its pastoral calm. In The Supper at Emmaus, the characters seem ready to come off the wall, as Christ makes his sacramental gesture over the food. This insistence, this feeling of a world trying to burst from the canvas, is epitomized in one detail of the Supper--the basket of fruit, perched...
...phone calls to a local journalist an hour later, the outlawed Irish Republican Army called the attack "a well-planned operation" that "indicates our ability to strike when and where we decide." Indeed, after a long period of relative calm in Ulster, the I.R.A. had killed more police in this attack than in any other single episode since violence between Protestant and Catholic militants first erupted in 1969. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who escaped an I.R.A. bombing attempt on her life last October at Brighton, in the south of England, called the attack "barbaric." Echoing her sentiments, the Irish...
...audiences, who are accustomed to loud musicals and the chatty entertainment of TV and radio, sitting in a theater for two hours in which virtually the only sounds come from the audience's chuckles can be almost eerie. But Marceau's and Bip's-- anties, while subdued, provide a calm evening devoid of commercial interruption...
...though the former mayor called the establishment of the endowment "a step toward good town/gown relations" in the resolution. Vellucci described the fund as a ploy to calm city anger towards Harvard. "The town/gown [relationship] is falling apart. The Corporation put pressure on President Bok and he was happy to respond." Vellucci said last night
Most students remained calm during the 15 to 20 minute wait, and a who rode the elevator shortly after the incident said he felt a bit anyone but safe. "Lightning never strikes twice said John G. Christ...