Word: hung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such a price for Sunflowers? It is one of the larger Van Goghs, if not necessarily the best. Thanks to mass reproduction, it is exceptionally popular and famous. Its clones have hung on so many suburban walls over the decades that it has become the Mona Lisa of the vegetable world. What is more, everyone associates it with Van Gogh's madness; it is the embodied sign of what all persons of cultural pretension long ago learned to call his "last outburst of frenzied genius," or words to that effect. Thus, apart from its merits as a painting...
...members of the Radcliffe chapter ofthis national organization are Judith R. Barish,Maisy M. Chan, Marion C. Eakin, Deborah Tan Hung,Elizabeth Ransome, Karin M. Reinisch, Marilynn M.Richtarik, Joan Roanine, Stark, Stroud and Wohl
...movie isn't somewhat enlightening. I mean, what man on earth could ever guess that going on a blind date with Kim Basinger could end up ruining your life? What begins as pleasant enough evening for fast-track L.A. careerist Walter Davis (Bruce Willis), leaves him fired, arrested, injured, hung over, and with only the frame of his sporty white car to drive home...
...Deer had two three-run homers and six RBI for the Brewers, who rallied from two early four-run deficits and then hung on after the Red Sox, down 11-6, tied the game...
Throughout the three days of the battle it had been easy to believe that the Presidency hung in the balance. Suddenly, having felt the suspense, I wondered how members of both parties--not only on the floor, but in the press--could exaggerate the vote's importance, then, in a classic case of timidity, minimize it when the President lost. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54's mixed metaphor after the vote met derision in the Senate Press Gallery" "If no more shoes drop on Irangate, [the President] is out of the woods...