Word: freest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nudes are a continuing preoccupation of Soyer's. His studies have an erotic quality that is unexpected in so detached an artist. The bodies-always female-are not beautiful in the classic sense. Heavy-haunched and often pregnant, Soyer's models have inspired his freest, most impressionistic and ultimately his finest work. Among his most memorable pieces are the full-length 1952 Nude at the Whitney Museum, the lithographs at the Hirshhorn print show and the drawings of nudes that are scattered through his entire oeuvre...
Repeated Soviet warnings had failed to deter Polish leaders from calling the congress and choosing delegates in the freest elections the country has seen since the Communists consolidated their power in 1947. Under the new rules, nominations could come up from the rank and file as well as down from the leadership, and the final voting was done by secret ballot...
...reduce it to very basic human emotions: resentment, the desire to emulate, the desire to undermine. That is the lot necessarily of anyone who is in the forefront of historical change, who happens to be the richest and the most innovative and also the freest...