Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Herb Ritts exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, entitled "Work," begins with some of Ritts' most familiar images--a sweaty young man with tires, a pane of falling water grasped by a naked man. Ritts uses photography to explore the human form, distilling it into clean, pure lines. Sometimes this concentration on form and line reduces the very humanity of the subject. In one photograph from a series taken at the beach, a woman heads out to sea. The smooth mass of wet hair plastered against her naked back and the dark triangle of her bikini bottom both define...
...arrest of a former minister for the Mafia-style political assassination of a rival, official corruption and bribery, all topped off by law-enforcement bungling on a grand scale. Public anger and disgust are so high that when citizens' groups last month organized a demonstration to demand a government clean-up, silent, white-clad protesters numbering 300,000--fully 3% of the country's population--thronged the streets of Brussels...
...humor" would cease to intrigue if higher quality goods were available in our humor market. A few more humor magazines and Demon would be compelled by the rationale of supply and demand to undertake a wholly new and revolutionary enterprise: to create humor that is at the same time clean, engaging, tasteful and intellectual, or, at the very least, inoffensive...
...despite all the red flags, Texaco's stockholders did next to nothing. They could have put serious pressure on the company to clean up its act, but until Texaco's racial climate became a public embarrassment, most of them ignored the issue. For the past four years, New York City's Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, an ecumenical group that invests in companies so that it can have a voice in their policies, has introduced resolutions to make Texaco more accountable by disclosing data about its employment practices. But, says the I.C.C.R.'s Gary Brouse, such efforts have failed because...
...hero, best-selling author, Mr. Clean; G.O.P. affiliation would give second term that bipartisan luster...