Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other people have suggested that the sudden death of Vina Mallowitz from cancer in 1977 caused him to "fall to pieces" and that the drug business was a direct response to the loss of his wife. "She was a steadying influence, she guided him," says Sherwood L. Washburn '35, formerly the head of the anthropology department at Chicago...
Isaak Levitan was clearly the leading landscapepainter of the day, and the exhibition offersseveral fine examples of his work. In thesepaintings, we distinguish the distinct mark of theFrench Barbizon painters in his direct and simpletreatment of a nature without people or astory--the beauty of the colors, the naturalpoetry captured in the scene, shines throughLevitan's paintings...
...different, but successful vein is the title track. Here, the jerky, sporadic guitar chords suggest the premium-fueled rockabilly licks of former X guitarist Billy Zoom, while Dando chants out some direct but not inane lyrics: "We got problems we can't solve. It's enough to make you want to hate your friends." It's not the most charitable sentiment but it is honest...
...perhaps Lebanon -- would be given an adequate opportunity to state their cases in the most effective manner. With the eyes of the world focused on them, it is possible that the presentations would be less vituperative and more constructive than in a forum like the U.N. General Assembly. Direct talks to resolve specific differences would be necessary, and mutually acceptable mediators would be helpful in each of these bilateral negotiations. Deadlocks could be referred to the plenum group under pre-arranged conditions for further discussion, but in no case could this group of other nations impose its collective will...
...lack of style. As a brochure by the New Testament editor, Father Gerard S. Sloyan of Temple University, bluntly explained, "If this translation has a fault it is not that of obscurity, rather of a clarity which says what the text says, neither more nor less -- plain, unvarnished and direct...