Word: glimmered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painting is a link between Caravaggio's shadow-theater and, through Salvator Rosa, the world of 19th century romanticism. It shows a young man in half-armor lying stiff and composed on the floor of a cave (some mountain charnel-house, perhaps) surrounded by rainy twilight and the glimmer of bones, with a curl of smoke still issuing from an extinguished votive lamp. A vanitas? A more personal lamentation? Impossible to say; yet there is more real feeling in this restrained image than in many a square yard of post-Caravaggian bombast...
...came under fire from the White House last summer when he and Paul Nitze, the INF negotiator whom Rostow supervised, recommended that the U.S. pursue an informal proposal that Nitze had discussed with Yuli Kvitsinsky, the Soviet INF negotiator at Geneva. As one Administration official recalls, it offered "the glimmer of a damned good outcome." William Clark, Reagan's National Security Adviser, criticized both Rostow and Nitze for not staying in closer contact with the White House. Nitze responded with a question, "How can you negotiate with a guy if you can't talk to him?" After...
...answer has always been the same, "Until you find her body, there is at least a glimmer of hope...
...chorus: "Struck me kinda funny, funny yea indeed, how at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe." On this album, Springsteen addresses more directly the hardships we either endure or ignore. The gloom afflicting Springsteen on this one song with a glimmer of hope shows there are no readily apparent solutions to much that troubles...
...months, the staff of the New York Daily News had gamely chased scoops while under sentence of death. Forever facing some new and seemingly more inescapable deadline for the paper's folding, employees searched determinedly for a glimmer of hope. Said an editor: "There is supposed to be a series of psychological stages in confronting death-anger, denial, depression and so on, until acceptance. Here there was never acceptance." A writer characterized the mood as "Apocalypse: Never Mind." But last week, when the paper's deliverers became the last of eleven unions to accept a cost-cutting plan...