Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unless something is done," Sister Pearl tells residents, "more problems are coming. More colonias, more people without water." Her job requires a healthy measure of outrage, something not difficult to acquire in neighborhoods rank with the odor of cesspools and defective septic tanks: in addition to 28,000 people without water in the El Paso area, some 53,000 live without sewer systems. At a crook in the road outside Socorro, the nun pulls the car over and gestures toward a field of white cotton. "The waterlines just stop there. Can you believe it? All these people want...
...Raymond, a high school math teacher, were Bush backers. Many of their guests were the kind of blue-collar voters and nominal Democrats who may swing the election. Typical was Greg Kretz, a 30-year-old carpenter, who said before the debate, "I like the job Reagan has done, but I don't think that Bush has the same kind of leadership." Yet Kretz was not committed to Dukakis either. "I'm concerned about what he's done as Governor," he explained. "He raised taxes...
Whatever else may be wrong with the late American art industry, we are living in the golden age of the retrospective exhibition. One by one, the great artists of the 19th century have been done over the past decade: Cezanne, Manet, Courbet, Van Gogh, Gauguin -- and now Edgar Degas. We may deplore the crowds at these shows, the souvenir selling, the social circus and the TeleTron tickets at up to $7.75 apiece, an outrageous tax on knowledge. Earplugs -- preferably not attached to Acoustiguide gadgets -- and yogic detachment are needed. There are, as crusty old Degas said, some kinds of success...
...jockey whose horse may distantly refer to one of the steeds of the Apocalypse, or the Russian Dancers of 1899, three women in clumping boots, locked together in a straining mass like Goya's witches. Both the allegory and the freshness can be found in his first real masterpiece, done in 1858-67 after he got back to Paris from his studies in Rome: The Bellelli Family, that marvelously observed group portrait of his neurotic aunt Laura, her lazy and distracted husband Gennaro and their two daughters. For though it is a tour de force of realist observation -- how much...
...market. Prechter issued a warning on Oct. 5, advising his subscribers to sell their stocks. But he did not predict the downturn's severity, which disappointed some followers. "New business has virtually disappeared," Prechter concedes, but he is philosophical: "Going through the valley is something I've done before...