Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrests, but for Livingston the charade had become muddled with reality. He kept bank accounts in his pseudonym and introduced himself regularly as Pat Salamone. According to Fred Schwartz, the Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the sting defendants, Livingston has "psychiatric problems that make it difficult for him to distinguish between his real identity and his undercover identity...
...begins and ends the Quincy House Theatrical's production of Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City. We start off and conclude with the same event. But we must concentrate hard to determine what happens in the interim. Throughout the morass of plot, we have to distinguish the various lines and hope they don't get hopelessly tangled...
...because he was a member of a racial minority. Disillusioned by what he regarded as the unfairness of academic affirmative-action policies based solely on race, he turned down all the professorships offered and became a writer. Rodriguez realized that "the policy of affirmative action was never able to distinguish someone like me from a slightly educated Mexican American who lived in a barrio. Worse, affirmative action made me the beneficiary of his condition." Today, he believes, colleges do nonwhite students a disservice by recruiting them without due regard for their preparation or chances to succeed. "The revolutionary demand," Rodriguez...
...alien to its supposed classical, 15th century models as it was dependent on the Parisian painting of its own moment." This view of De Chirico as formalist fits all the evidence, and rids the artist of a great deal of accumulated "poetic" waffle. It also helps one to distinguish, in a way that makes sense, between De Chirico's real achievements and the long slide into mediocrity after 1918. Authentic pre-1918 De Chiricos are few, and most of them are on the MOMA'S walls. On the other hand, copies and "later" versions-a euphemism for self...
...David Halberstam observed last month in a Wall Street Journal column, "The conduct of a guerrilla war is largely political." By contrast, the army is not used to having to justify itself and has little sense of public relations. Says one TV producer: "The army does not try to distinguish between a liberal Italian newspaper and the National Broadcasting Company...