Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scorn for elitism also informed Smith's ambivalent response to the praise he ultimately garnered from the artistic community. Some critics have argued that Smith's stormy relations with contemporary artistic "authorities" represented a refusal to fit his work within the contemporary parameters of art discourse. But after viewing this exhibit, it becomes clearer that Smith's concerns were more specific than simply a complete rejection of artistic aspirations...
Perhaps no one will find a single strategic concept or a template to fit all situations. "I think it's very unlikely," says Powell. "I think that as these situations arise they will be dealt with on an ad hoc basis and in the politics of the time." That means the government will have to argue each case on its own merits, as it must for Bosnian intervention...
...Minutes ran a bowdlerized version of the story (without the interview) a week ago, at the end of which correspondent Mike Wallace announced that he and his colleagues were "dismayed that the management at CBS had seen fit to give in to perceived threats of legal action against us by a tobacco-industry giant." Wallace, Morley Safer and other CBS newsmen continued to voice their concerns in print and TV interviews, raising alarms that CBS's corporate bosses might be getting weak-kneed in the face of aggressive (and potentially expensive) threats of libel. It was CBS journalists on their...
WALLACE WAILS, FITZ HAS FIT...
...first glance, the heroine-narrator of Susanna Moore's fourth novel, In the Cut (Knopf; 180 pages, $21), seems to fit perfectly into the polite cast of contemporary fiction. Frannie Thorstin, 34, lives on Washington Square in lower Manhattan, where the ghost of Henry James still whispers to the sensitive. She teaches creative writing in a city program for teenagers "of what is called low achievement and high intelligence." She is also writing a book on dialects and regional slang, particularly as they occur in the five boroughs of New York City. She notes, "The words themselves--in their...