Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about. At one time, a decent knowledge of classical mythology and the Bible was enough to understand what a painter was up to. Today, even an encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary art can fail to inform the art-hungry heiress what her new Abstract Expressionist masterpiece is supposed to express...
...beat is the entire world, and it naturally follows that our correspondents are among the airlines' steadiest customers. In view of this week's cover story on air safety, it is noteworthy that few of these reporters, many of whom log tens of thousands of miles each year, express fears for their own safety while aboard an aircraft...
...grunts watching them. This approach forgoes any artistic epiphanies for a very real tension, felt in the gut: a genuine fear that something terrible is going to happen to the people on the screen and that there is nothing we can do about it. And when those people express the same fear, we begin to have an inkling of what it must have been like...
Most stunning was the news that the SEC had subpoenaed 15 employees of Shearson Lehman Brothers, including its chairman Peter Cohen. The agency is investigating the $482 million buyout of Sheller-Globe, a Toledo maker of auto parts, by a group that included Shearson, the investment arm of American Express. Sheller-Globe's shares surged just before the buyout was made public, rising from 28 3/8 on Jan. 10 to 44 on Feb. 19. That sort of sudden movement in a stock often suggests that illegal insider trading may have taken place...
...Oliver North by Mid-East Express...