Word: formalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David Armstrong, for example, creates elegant, formal pictures of his friends and lovers. The black and white photography and the careful posed manner of his subjects call to mind traditional portraiture. Yet the slow, intent stare of the subjects conveys a sense of the connection between the artist and the people he photographed. In this way, he achieves a kind of autobiographical gesture in his work...
...sometimes try to get the department to provide solid information on the teaching record [by] making inquiries among their contacts," Buell says. "It does vary--the results that we get if no formal procedure for evaluation exists...
Although there is no formal role for students in the current tenure process, administrators say student input is considered in the teaching section of the dossier...
...world's leaders assemble in New York City this week to celebrate the U.N.'s formal 50th birthday, the occasion augurs more than traffic gridlock unlike any that Manhattan has ever seen. Outside of the champagne parties at Turtle Bay, site of the U.N. headquarters, the anniversary stands to produce a feast of cynicism about the visions of 1945. From this angle, the organization's ambitions look overblown and its bureaucratic arthritis embarrassing. As fashion statement, the U.N. is growing scandalously demode...
...blink of an eye these days, a carefully built construct of regulations can be blown away without so much as a formal hearing. As part of a crusade to curb federal authority, and with only a simple assertion that the regulations are burdensome, two congressional committees have sent to the floor for a vote this week legislation that would repeal federal standards. There would be no protection against patients' being restrained, no standards on staffing or when someone could be discharged after using up all his or her money. Niceties like nurses would be optional, since there is no requirement...