Word: courting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They would have to go through the public court records like anyone else," Morse said...
...program, funded by a grant from media magnate Walter Annenberg, is named for federal judge Irving R. Kaufman, a longtime U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge famed for his defense of First Amendment rights...
...painters had batting records, that of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, court painter to Philip IV of Spain, would be perfect. Not only did he paint the best official portrait of the 17th century -- the head of the wary, coarse, cunning old Pope Innocent X, in the Galleria Doria-Pamphili collection in Rome -- but he also made what is perhaps the greatest nonmythical, secular painting in all art history: Las Meninas, in the Prado. Neither is in the wonderful show of 38 paintings by Velazquez, about half lent by the Prado, which opens at the Metropolitan Museum...
...gray and white, to the hair of a hunting dog's leg whose living animal nature gets its due in three long and five short strokes of the brush. He does not truckle to King, Infanta or Pope; he does not satirize the dwarfs and idiots kept for the court's amusement. Nothing human is alien to him. Everything is worthy of respect -- a respect whose sign is an unswerving attentiveness. The morality of his art is one of transparency and proud restraint. He was, as all who knew him agreed, a paragon of the phlegmatic temperament: a walking mirror...
...went on the offensive, charging that his accusers were motivated by "mudslinging" and acted out of "political self- interest." The strategy failed to prevent an indictment. By a largely partisan vote of 166 to 121, the legislators ordered Papandreou, 70, to stand trial later this year before a special court on three felony charges -- taking bribes, accepting the proceeds of a crime, and breach of faith...