Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World War II is clearly marked. Every contingent of draftees was lined up in front of the Trailways bus that would take them to camp. Their pictures were snapped, their names and the names of their parents faithfully recorded. In the fading volumes those placid, strong young faces form a continuing gallery...
...watching its practical actions, but up to now we haven't been able to form a clear picture. We are afraid that Henry Kissinger could be harmful to the Administration. We want them to be very cautious about Kissinger...
...Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy -- on the basis of conservative ideology. The three appear to have forged an alliance with Byron White and William Rehnquist, whom Reagan elevated to Chief Justice in 1986. Together, says Geoffrey Stone, dean of the University of Chicago Law School, they form a "gang of five that increasingly operates without taking into consideration the views of the other four Justices...
...portrait of her in the Prado. Yet not one of his painter-admirers has made Velazquez seem "newer," or in any significant way changed the address of his work. Velazquez himself seems always new, fresh on his own terms, which record the act of scrutiny in the purest imaginable form and so have never dated. He is, to quote Lenin very much out of context, "as radical as reality itself...
...hilt of his sword. There is nothing he cannot draw, though no drawings by Velazquez survive. That, however, is part of his fascination to eyes conditioned by the spontaneity of painting since Manet, for now that Velazquez's paint has aged, one sees the radical shifts and erasures of form below the unperturbed surface. There is no texture he cannot paint, from the massive chains of silver embroidery that anchor a Bourbon Queen's black dress to the bottom of the canvas, their slightly tarnished sparkle amazingly conveyed in opaque blobs of gray and white, to the hair...