Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marketplace in a Palestinian camp, where Ahmed is thought to be located, a walleyed woman asks furiously: "What do you think of these dogs, the Arabs?" A camp security guard points out a grape arbor on a roof and explains that Palestinians create such things "to express their relationship with their native home...
Near by, the Hotel Triomphe has been converted to an emergency hospital. In the unlit lobby restaurant, twelve beds are set out where the tables once were. A label on the door to the room states that American Express cards are welcome. There are more patients upstairs. A Lebanese man named Said was in his home
...risks might exceed the potential rewards. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sent a letter to Reagan stating that if the U.S. sent its Marines to Lebanon, the U.S.S.R. might counter with moves of its own in the region. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee called President Reagan to express his concern about the plan. Even within the Administration there were qualms. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who has consistently opposed committing U.S. troops abroad, expressed support for the decision. He also noted, however, that it was a "risky business" and stressed that any involvement would be "a very limited, short-term...
...bizarre or eccentric. He could not draw. Perhaps he was even mad. Then the French, led by dissenters from the academic tradition like Manet, rediscovered him as a great dissenter. Next the German expressionists like Marc and Kandinsky found in him a justification for the distortion of form to express passion rather than mere representation. Finally, the U.S. intelligentsia, just then discovering the provocations of Picasso and Van Gogh as expounded by the Museum of Modern Art in the '30s, discovered in El Greco an old master who seemed to relate to their excitement about the new art. They...
...hated and blamed God. But your book was the real turnaround in my mourning. You let me love the Lord again." Said a mother from Nevada: "I gave birth to a Down's-syndrome baby and have been hunting [for God] ever since. You were the person to express to me that I have a right to feel anger. Maybe now I can believe in a more realistic God." Wrote a reader in Pennsylvania: "I wish I had had your book 20 years ago. I offer you my agreement and thanks...