Word: characterizing
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Unlike the Courbet exhibition in Paris in 1977, it leaves out several of the most ambitious Second Empire paintings: A Burial at Ornans, The Meeting, The Bathers -- with its "Hottentot Venus," as one hostile critic called her, that waddling wardrobe of a nude that became the scandal of the 1853...
The question is what kind of Johnny Carson the '90s will want. Hall, 29, attracts a relatively young audience and says he will have a "melting pot" of guests: "You'll see ((rap singer)) L.L. Cool J and ((country star)) Reba McEntire meeting each other." Sajak, who appeals to an...
Reagan's vision of America not only altered what Americans expect of government; it also played deftly on what we expect from ourselves. We are all to some extent tending to our character, trying to turn efforts of will into habits of mind in the hope that generosity will one...
So might a Sienese religious conservative have viewed the early 15th century's incursion of reality upon the Gothic-Byzantine, iconic tradition. The ragged gray-brown outcrops that appear in the background of Saint Anthony Tempted by a Heap of Gold are hardly the result of fantasy and are recognizably...
Potter was born, the same year as Marlow, into a poor family in the Forest of Dean, those sprawling West Country woods where young Philip spots his mother copulating. Potter moved to London, as his character does, was graduated with honors from Oxford, ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1964, then...