Word: excepts
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Most of the abstract painting coming out of the School of Paris in the late '40s and '50s, except for Serge Poliakoff (sometimes) and the still somewhat underrated Nicolas de Sta?l, was either self-consciously pious (religious stained glass was a favored metaphor) or mock convulsive. A hideous array of bravura squiggles by Georges Mathieu, whom French critics, for a while, regarded as Europe's answer to Pollock, reminds you how shallow this rhetoric could...
...widely advocated alternative, heavy air strikes plus the lifting of the arms embargo on Bosnia, almost certainly would not work either, except in the sense that it might enable the antagonists to fight until exhausted. Of course, some political-diplomatic settlement might still be patched together. But the only sure way to end the conflict is by overwhelming force, meaning up to 100,000 NATO troops prepared to stay for a long time, as advocated by Senator Richard Lugar and others. Is Bosnia worth it? A case can be made that it is, on moral grounds and as a deterrent...
...tattooed on her arm; she wants to join Europe's murdered Jews. Conroy later inserts long sections about pogroms in czarist Russia, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi death camps to explain the suicide. They don't. The historical carpetbagging doesn't add much of anything to the novel except a few unnecessarily grisly shocks...
...Harvard Square part of Cambridge is less urban than it might look to the neophyte emerging from the T stop. Far from being a concrete jungle (well, except for Holyoke Center) this region actually has trees. Many parts of the Square, including Harvard Yard, Radcliffe Yard and the Cambridge Common, are delightfully leafy, shaded enclaves. In the winter, the city's open space turns into mud. But during the summer months, students can sprawl on Harvard lawns that were carefully made green for the Commencement crowds...
...state and other sources -- a recent American Bar Association survey found that less than one-fifth of the civil legal needs of the poor are being met; the LSC says it has to turn away 43% of eligible clients. The resulting triage means the LSC now rejects divorce cases except when spousal abuse is involved and eviction cases unless a family risks homelessness...