Word: intervallic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congress is likely to wait until the Salvadoran ballots are counted before deciding on the fate of $62 million worth of proposed U.S. military aid for El Salvador, and of $21 million intended for the contras. Indeed, some of the urgency of those decisions dissipated last month when the Administration...
But my attempts to persuade Block and Meese, and ultimately Reagan, that the embargo was a very important foreign policy issue did not succeed. It was viewed almost exclusively as a domestic issue. When, finally, the embargo was lifted, it came as a sudden action. On April 21, Meese summoned...
His early portraits-whether in pencil, like the exquisite study of Elaine de Kooning, Portrait of Elaine, circa 1940-41, or in oil-thus tended to consolidate an unerring density of structure beneath their tentative-looking, close-toned surfaces; all nuance and doubt on top (often de Kooning, like Arshile...
"Manischevitz was profoundly disappointed at the return of his active pain and suffering. He had hoped for a longer interval of easement, long enough to have a thought other than of him self and his troubles. Day by day, minute after minute, he lived in pain, pain his only memory...
Of The Fifer, 1866, Zola remarked that Manet did not shrink from "the abruptness of nature": "His whole being bids him to see in patches, in simple elements charged with energy." The same claims would be made by the postimpressionists-patch and discontinuity, "arrangement" as against continuous modeling. If The...