Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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I haven't quite figured this out. The government makes preferences all the time and yet no one wants to ever admit to it: affirmative action, sugar subisdies, and most-favored-nation trade status are all decisions made because they are believed to be in the interest or good of...
Rothenberg's latest work, done since she moved to New Mexico, is even more diffuse than these and rarely seems to cohere well -- apart from a change in technique (she uses a palette knife now, after watching local workers troweling adobe), she has not yet figured out how to deal...
BINGO NIGHT AT THE MONTGOMERY County Fairgrounds was passing slowly. But when a visitor started asking questions about Bill Clinton's plans to raise taxes, voices rose and necks were craned to catch the commotion. "Look, just because I have a little money to gamble with doesn't mean I...
"Well, using my skills as a master of calculus, I figured out the curve of the bowl, the numbers of beans at the top, and after a quick computation I came pretty close to the correct answer," he said.
THOUGH KNOWN AS THE SUPREME VIOLIN virtuoso whose personal eccentricities and wizardly playing combined to make him music's first superstar, Niccolo Paganini was also a superb guitarist. The instrument figured in all his published work during his lifetime except his magnum opus, the ferociously demanding 24 Caprices for solo...