Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incendiary times, there was never a serious effort to pass a constitutional amendment. Now the issue has become, so to speak, less burning. With the ideological battles at home in abeyance and challenges from abroad less severe, it would seem that the nation would feel more secure about the glorious discomforts that come from tolerating forms of free speech -- even when they are as offensive as the antics of flag burners or the lyrics of 2 Live Crew or the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe...
...find a screen character that he, and the audience, could live with comfortably over the length of an entire movie. For he was essentially a sketch artist, creator on TV's Saturday Night Live of marvelous and curiously healing parodies of racial stereotypes: Tyrone Green, Velvet Jones, the glorious Buckwheat. His best early movies, 48 Hrs. and Trading Places, permitted him the freedom to do variations on these characters, but he didn't have to carry these pictures alone. He had strong co-stars in well-developed roles sharing his burdens...
Everyone experiences a few infamous "firsts" at Harvard. The first walk to the Quad. The first time lotteried out of a Core course. That first glorious mouthful of venerable vegetables...
...tall Cockatoo and Parakeet, a bird with opalescent feathers pecks at vibrant cherries. In the magnificent Landscape Triptych, Tiffany played with shade and light in a glade to produce landscape poetry worthy of the Hudson River school of painting. Vase of Red Peonies, dominated by a glorious clot of blossoms, prefigures abstraction...
Hemingway and Joyce wrote there; impressionism sprang to life there; Robespierre and Lenin plotted there. Where? In the grand and glorious old Parisian cafes, bien sur. The times may have changed, but the moveable feast continues...