Word: hollowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trial open with arguments and questions and then decide which, if any, witnesses to call. That the Texas conservative and the Massachusetts liberal--"the most unlikely combination you could imagine," as Collins called them--could agree on anything suggests one of two things: either the compromise was hollow and symbolic, or something rare and impressive occurred...
...system can be proud of. A legitimate point -- but TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney says these guys aren't the ones to make it. "In the House, it was the Republicans who insisted that they didn't need witnesses," he says. "Coming from them it could sound a little hollow...
...Busch, The Schaefer Sisters "clicks" for the viewer just as later Abstract Expressionist pieces "click"; unlike abstract images, however, the presence of a clearly portrayed object confounds any attempt on the museum goer's part to detect feelings of abstract communication or inspiration. Pieces such as Max Beckmann's hollow-eyed Self-Portrait and Lyonel Feiniger's playfully interpretable Hairdresser's Dummy with Mr. and Mrs. Feiniger have the modern emphasis on form which mark their contemporaries in architecture and design, but their stubborn focus on people as objects indicates a less artistic goal-politics...
...previously solid sculpture became thesealighted, diaphanous, netted, hollow forms,"Echelman said. "I wake up after dreams and I havethe shapes [of the sculptures] in my mind...
...started to combat ferocious traffic problems in the Boston area. The plan called for Boston's exposed artery--its largest eyesore--to be buried. The Artery's traffic will be carried instead along a 10-lane underground expressway. Anyone living downtown better be ready to feel safe above hollow ground: most of the city's notoriously sludgy earth will be infiltrated by miles of tunnels traversed daily by as many as 245,000 vehicles...