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Daumier: An Epoch Observed--MFA through July...
...completely changed. The proof is the loud attack in parliament on failed reforms and the resignation of the government. This was the effect of our efforts at negotiating. Communism is stuck. We must change it. It may be very dangerous, and it may cost us a lot. But the epoch requires...
...clusters of galaxies that exists today? Were stars created before galaxies or vice versa? And perhaps most intriguing, are these galaxies poised at the edge of the observable universe? Astronomers believe most galaxies formed at the same time, shortly after the big bang. If these galaxies come from that epoch, their light began its journey to earth 17 billion years ago, and they are likely to be the most distant objects in the cosmos. There is a chance, of course, that the objects are something other than what Elston suspects, and astronomers are racking their brains for a convincing alternative...
...biographer of T.S. Eliot and a novelist who specializes in the blending of history and imagination. In Hawksmoor he shuttled between the 18th century and the present. Chatterton ventures deeper ! into the time warp. It unfolds in contemporary England, concludes in the late 1700s and dallies in the Victorian epoch when an artist named Henry Wallis painted a dramatic portrait, now in the Tate Gallery, of the poet as a young corpse. The model for Chatterton was also an apprentice writer: George Meredith. Not long afterward, Wallis ran off with Meredith's wife Mary Ellen...
...brings ample experience to the presidency, which carries a six-year term. As the Minister of Budget and Planning since 1982, Salinas is both credited and cursed for President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's austerity program. Salinas' task will be to guide Mexico's economy from the sleepy epoch of the sombrero into the dynamic age of the superconductor. At the same time, he faces mounting demands to loosen the P.R.I.'s grip on the country's political system...