Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order to fix the facts he loved-the blurred motion of a spoked wheel, the tilt of a catboat beating to windward, the awkward play of a naked boy's legs as he dives-Eakins produced a mass of preparatory work, in many mediums. Convinced that the camera was truth, he took photographs and worked from them; he was one of the first American artists to do so. He made drawing after drawing, from mere thumbnail sketches to stupendously elaborate perspective studies that include notes on such minutiae as eight cross sections of an oar from loom to blade...
...mean? I don't know that person and he doesn't know me. I think most people want to pay their debts, really. It's just that most Americans don't know how to budget their money. They just need to be told how to fix the problem, and that's where I come in. I go home rewarded because I'm able to help people...
...engines flown from the U.S. to stand by at the airport as Reagan landed. Air Force One was followed, as always, by a back-up jet and a press plane. On a trip like the one to Barbados, 150 Air Force and other personnel go along to fly, drive, fix and guard Reagan's vehicles...
This is Italian family month in New York museums. First, the Museum of Modern Art's great retrospective of Giorgio de Chirico to fix the paternity, or some of it, and now the offspring, or some of them, at the Guggenheim Museum. "Italian Art Now: An American Perspective" is the latest in the Guggenheim's discursive series of "sample shows" of the current art of different nations. It covers the work of seven artists: three painters (Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Nino Longobardi), two sculptors (Giuseppe Penone and Gilberto Zorio) and two conceptual/per formance artists (Luigi Ontani and Vettor...
...ears of corn, Joseph took them as signs of coming events. The Book of Genesis records his forecast: "Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. And there shall arise after them seven years of famine." Pharaoh was so pleased to get a fix on the future that he made Joseph the ruler of Egypt. If Joseph materialized now, politics would make it hard for him to get his old job back, but with his proven foresight he would soon find work...