Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Koons' work is so overexposed that it loses nothing in reproduction and gains nothing in the original. It is pure stasis. Koons is the baby to Andy Warhol's Rosemary. There is no artist in whom self-advertisement and self-esteem are more ecstatically united than Koons: he makes even Julian Schnabel, who recently proclaimed himself to be the nearest thing America has to Picasso, look like a paragon of self-effacement. He has done for narcissism what Michael Milken did for the junk bond...
...same reason--a desire for historians' esteem--motivated a less praiseworthy decision. Bush granted six Iran-contra defendants--one of whom was former secretary of defense and current perjurer Caspar W. Weinberger '38--executive clemency on Christmas Eve. Whether their actions were right or wrong didn't matter, he maintained, because the six were patriots, and it's wrong punish people for loving their country. Of course, that the pardons prevented six sticky trials which would have likely reveal the extent of Bush's participation in the scandals probably contributed to the outgoing president's decision. He could...
Councillor Alice K. Wolf, said a lack of self-esteem or a feeling of selfworth may lead to lower performance levels among minorities...
...else does he so eagerly long for an end to pain and for the remedy of a lasting relationship than on Love to be Loved and Washing of the Water. In the former, Gabriel confesses his fears of loneliness over a moody, mid-tempo track, singing, "When my self-esteem is sinking, I like to be liked/ In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted/ 'Cos I love to be loved." Washing of the Water, with its slow piano-and-drum accompaniment, sounds hymnal. "River, oh river running deep," Gabriel implores, "Bring me something to take this pain...
...Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites...gain their self-esteem by gazing down...