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...Cezanne--not to mention to paintings of Manet, Seurat, Bonnard, Renoir and many more. Meanwhile, Toulouse-Lautrec is presiding over the Moulin Rouge nightclub, Paul Gauguin has taken ship for Tahiti and set about painting the native girls--and poor, mad Van Gogh is only ten years in the grave...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Looking Backwards | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

...about moving out of state, and the voters will be talking about this for years. And for Davis, rescuing the system now means footing the bill. It's an open-ended plan that has some people thinking that deregulation is not only dead, it's already spinning in its grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California, the Tunnel at the End of the Light | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

Such notions of activist poetry evolved with a tumultuous life, marked with grave personal, artistic and political decisions. Rich's early poetry, though elegant, is politically lackluster, drawing thematically and stylistically on the works of poets like Yeats, Frost and Auden. Her "angrier" later works emerged from a vibrant background of marriage, family, 1960's civil rights activism, anti-Vietnam War protests, an emergent women's movement and personal decisions about sexuality and liberation...

Author: By Selin Tuysuzoglu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Gets Rich: Poet, Activist, Feminist Adrienne Rich Reads in the Radcliffe Institute Inaugural Lecture Series | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

Gore, meanwhile, called in a Secretary of State of his own, Warren Christopher, whose primary role was to stand up and look grave and reliable and say that "we are not on the edge of a constitutional crisis, and we don't intend to provoke a constitutional crisis." Gore made a statement in the afternoon--measured, careful and, to the true believers, infuriating. Gore and Christopher and Daley are all the type who take the long view. But the activists felt cheated and disfranchised and were looking for Fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Reversal of... ...Fortune | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...Once upon a time in a barbaric kingdom, a young man attempted to win the love of the king's daughter - a grave offense. The king decreed that, as punishment, the young man must stand in a great arena facing two doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Out. Take a Break. Play 'The Lady or the Tiger' | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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