Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reputedly killed 60 swordsmen before his 30th birthday; he then gave up killing in favor of painting and calligraphy. One of his ink paintings is in the show, a swiftly brushed image of a shrike balanced on a branch above a caterpillar that is crawling upward, presumably to its doom. It is a graphic masterpiece. You feel the tension in the body of the bird as it balances before striking, and every flick of the brush bespeaks alertness...
...transformed industry is flourishing in Buzz and Woody's wake. The recent success of Antz was only the first shot in a fusillade of diverse CGI (computer graphics imaging) epics designed to appeal to moviegoers whose tastes are informed more by Super Mario and Doom than by Snow White and Bambi...
Despite what many say, the Constitution State can support an NFL organization--an assertion that is buoyed by Hartford's $1 billion commitment to developing the city's riverfront area. Connecticut surely won't let past mistakes doom this deal. Go Pats, Go! CABLE TV--Alex M. Carter; ADAMS ATTACKS--Laura C. Semerjian; PATS LEAVE--William P. Bohlen; PATS ARRIVE--Scott A. Resnick
...where was Gingrich last spring? Putting himself in a position in which Clinton could be self-righteous. So confident was Gingrich that the intern scandal would doom the President--despite polls that were already consistently showing that the public didn't care--that he assumed he would have the upper hand in any budget deal. Instead, the public saw the Democrats as the party that was trying to attend to business while the Republicans were distracted by scandal...
...final lesson of the research," Lopez-De-Silanes said, "is that economic and cultural factors do not doom a country to have bad government forever...