Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ugly: The philosophy behind this one is that most people are trying to make themselves look more attractive, so why not be truly original and try to make oneself look ugly? After all, beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness can be rotten to the core...
After the blaze was extinguished, fire fighters discovered two smoldering craters, 30 ft. to 40 ft. wide and 7 ft. deep. The death toll in the worst fire-fighting disaster in Kansas City's history: all six of the fire fighters who first arrived at the scene. Investigators suspect arsonists set the fire that ignited more than 20 tons of ammonium nitrate, an explosive used at the construction site. But their search for clues and a motive will be no easy task. The explosion was so destructive that it may have obliterated crucial evidence...
...Shultz ignored so much contrary advice? "This decision," explained one of his senior aides, "was a reflection of Shultz's deep psyche." Associates point to his long-avowed vendetta against terrorism. A friend, Robert Ames, was among the dead in the truck bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Schultz was singled out by anonymous terrorists as the target of a car bomb placed near a Jerusalem hotel where he was staying in March...
...expediency. It does not mean facility. (Cezanne had it, in the teeth of exhausting struggles with the motifs that show at every point in his work. Matisse had it, while making things look easier, at least on the surface.) It is not present in raw talent. It rises from deep continuities, not sudden facile ruptures. There are a few living American artists who have it. One thinks of Robert Motherwell's collages, for instance. And in drawing, especially, of Diebenkorn...
...purrs and she does not merely walk, she saunters. At the end of the play, when she is left all alone, Martha reveals the tenderness that has remained hidden behind her tough exterior for most of the rest of the play. Gunn capably exposes Martha's major weakness, her deep love for George...