Word: guts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painting. It sounds like a terrible mess, but it does not cook out that way, for two reasons. The first is the strength of Alexander's imagery; the second, his formal control. Since most neoexpressionist painting is given to conventional signs for intensity but lacks formal rigor (a gut pile without shape), Alexander's work repays inspection...
...undergraduate life, making curriculum a priority, encouraging improved teaching through the Danforth Center, and initiating the wholesale review of undergraduate academic regulations that continues today. Many Faculty members and officials credit him, too, with helping depoliticize the deanship, with being a scrupulously fair administrator and with having a gut-level commitment to Harvard that has led him to turn down the presidencies of four other University including Yale and the University of Chicago...
Lawson is not surprised. "The Supreme Court has avoided the gut issues, which are the violations of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments," he says. Chief Justice Warren Burger "is always whining about how the court is overloaded, and at the same time his court has repeatedly avoided dealing with the main issues...
...already a couple hundred people to show up for audition." Warner said, adding, "But the part of Phaedra will be hard to cost, because we need to find someone with a penetrating, gut-wrenching voice...
...hardships so commonplace, any period of healing is only a restless interlude before the next spat of marauding violence. When Johnny (Ralph Macchio) sleepily confides. "I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me at least he knows I'm there," the line is both gut-wrenching and believable. With desolation a staple, a bit of fisticuffs and a dangerous chase add spice...