Word: dore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power of animation, which in this case offers a fascinating study in contrasts. The setting is the Australian outback -- vast, empty, rendered in subtle pastels and often seen from radically high or low angles -- where only grownup man, the poacher, is vile. The film's designers speak of Gustave Dore as an inspiration, but their use of geologic mass may also remind viewers of the Creation sequence in Fantasia. And their vision of the eagle recalls Fantasia's prehistoric creatures...
British sociology is not without merit. To name even a few scholars makes the point: Ronald Dore (at Harvard recently), John Goldthrope and Anthony Giddens (consistently sought, I have been informed, by the sociologists here), Ernest Gellner (this year's Tanner lecturer at Harvard), Michael Mann and Duncan Gallie (recent winners of America's most prestigous sociology prize...
...unity government was appropriately ignominious. Ever since its formation 15 months ago, the coalition of Likud and Labor has functioned as something of a joke, breeding acrimony and indecision. Its foreign policy has been contradictory. Peres proposed swapping land for peace; Shamir insisted on both peace and territory. Says Dore Gold of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv: "Imagine Richard Nixon and George McGovern in the same Cabinet trying to negotiate the Paris peace talks ((with Viet...