Word: inks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discuss the possibility that a censure deal could be cut after the House votes. Under this scenario, Clinton might be impeached by the House but then offer to accept censure, a fine and some written statement rather than face trial in the Senate. That way the Republicans could ink their black mark in the history books and still avoid the trial...
...WORST Broadway high-flyer Garth Drabinsky (Show Boat, Ragtime) crashed to earth as new partners found his company, Livent, to be awash in red ink. Now Livent is in bankruptcy, tours are in limbo and Drabinsky...
What's more, a sense of humor--even of irreverence--began to seep into religious imagery. Witness a marvelous ink painting of vegetables by Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800). You can read it, with pleasure, as a supremely assured market still life (Jakuchu was, in fact, a vegetable wholesaler before he turned to painting full time). Gourds, melons, turnips, ears of corn and a shiitake mushroom surround an enormous forked white radish, lying as if in state on a basket. But as Singer points out, an educated 18th century Japanese would have recognized this as a parody of a familiar religious...
...ethos remained a legend long after his death. He was Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645), who wrote a famous text on swordplay (A Book of Five Rings) and reputedly killed 60 swordsmen before his 30th birthday; he then gave up killing in favor of painting and calligraphy. One of his ink paintings is in the show, a swiftly brushed image of a shrike balanced on a branch above a caterpillar that is crawling upward, presumably to its doom. It is a graphic masterpiece. You feel the tension in the body of the bird as it balances before striking, and every flick...
...cartoon on last Friday's editorial page (12/4), depicting Benjamin Netanyahu next to the Wye Peace Accord signed with invisible ink, is unduly cynical in light of recent events in the Middle East. The cartoon implies that the Peace Process is about to collapse and that Israel alone is to blame for this imminent collapse. We disagree with both propositions...