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Word: impressionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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As tidy as Clinton was sloppy, Lott dressed as crisply as a Sears-catalog model, showed up on time with his homework done and protested nothing. Neither the civil rights movement nor the Vietnam War made much of an impression on him. "I and my classmates came up in more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LOTT LIKE CLINTON? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

In another witty piece, "Blind Mirror" (1970), Meireles muddles the relationship between vision and touch. The work is a white hospital mirror covered with thick, sticky caulking. In theory, a blind person could make an impression of his face in the mirror, and then "look" at himself through touch. On...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: Defining the Politics of Perception | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

Perhaps they got the wrong impression from the council members handing out souvenir cigars at the exit door. These were certainly not intended for consumption. (Surely, students at and anti-drug University would not encourage others, several of whom are minors, to smoke.)

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.C. Deserves Credit for Formal | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

Sales wasn't the only one second-guessing. If Singleton had committed any serious crimes in Florida before last week, he wasn't caught. Police records indicate shoplifting charges. But the absence of intervening atrocities between bookend acts of horror does not lessen the impression that the California picketers were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A RECURRING NIGHTMARE | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Did Democratic fund-raisers sell jobs and federal appointments for cash? A memo written in April, 1994 by an unidentified fund-raiser, and kept in the files of former senior White House advisor Harold Ickes, flatly stated that in order to reach a fundraising goal of $40 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Sale: Nice Neighborhood, Good Security | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

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