Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chapel of their own, look ridiculously anticlimactic. The Impressionist work is as dull as could be. And, except for the Van Gogh and one early Gauguin, so is the more modern material. Only the Daumier holdings have any depth. One is left with the impression that Hammer had no eye at all, no feeling for art; that he bought like a bad shot firing into the middle of a flock of birds and, except for a few chance pellets, missing them all. Perhaps what he really liked was sentimental kitsch (of which he bought a great deal...
...some bombs -- brightening the dark ground and skies. One after another likened it to a Fourth of July fireworks display or a Christmas tree. A British television correspondent standing on a sixth-floor balcony of Al Rasheed Hotel reported a weird sight: a U.S. cruise missile whizzing past at eye level and slamming into the Iraqi Defense Ministry nearby...
...better at finding and destroying the remaining Scuds than the U.S. could. But politically the Jerusalem government might not be able to afford appearing to do nothing on its own to protect its citizens. The U.S. hoped that Arab allies would overlook Israeli retaliation if it were on an eye-for-an-eye scale, rather than the traditional hit-you-twice-as-hard assault...
...pull up to the sidewalk and come to a screeching halt. the street, as far as the eye could see, is littered with debris--shards of glass, plastic window shades and pieces of twisted, gray shrapnel. All the buildings are pockmarked, scratched up. Dazed residents pour out of their houses, many still in their pajamas. The police work quickly to seal off the area of impact...
...Israeli Embassy, Ambassador Zalman Shoval declined to rule out a retaliatory strike but also said a response from Israel "would not necessarily have the character of retribution." He said "it's not necessarily eye for and eye" but how best to protect the Israeli people...