Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unerring density of structure beneath their tentative-looking, close-toned surfaces; all nuance and doubt on top (often de Kooning, like Arshile Gorky, could not bring himself to give the final form to a hand or the side of a face, leaving it a worried blur), they were iron below. It was de Kooning's draftsmanship that enabled him to fix his parings from other artists-from Gorky, John Graham and, above all, Picasso-to a firm core. One can cite the Picassoan acquisitions in Seated Woman, circa 1940 | (the hair from Dora Maar, the breasts and calves from...
...beverage is still cranberry juice and in the political realm of the House of Representatives, Thomas W. McGee remains crown prince and dictator at the State House. The 59 year-old ex-Marine from Lynn is still among the most enduring of institutions on Beacon Hill, a man whose iron lock on the legislative process has long gone unrivaled by his elected colleagues. He has held the prestigious job of Speaker of the House for the past eight years--longer than anybody else since the early days of the 19th century. But now, Massachusetts has come alive with the restless...
...term cold war became synonymous with the tensions of the post-World War II era. During a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Winston Churchill provided another image for the new age. "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic," he said, "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent...
...series of barriers, including a chain-link fence and barbed-wire entanglements. Guards opened fire, but it was too late." A week later, Marine Commandant General Paul X. Kelley asserted that the truck slammed through the barbed wire at 60 m.p.h., sped past two armed sentries, burst through an iron gate and jumped over an 18-in. pipe before exploding...
...lights off in the parking lot outside Marine headquarters. Only five minutes before the attack, a car pulled up and its driver began taking pictures of the building; one guard later pronounced this "kind of strange." Finally, the red Mercedes truck with the fatal bomb rumbled through an iron gate left "invitingly" open, cruised at about 30 m.p.h. past two sentries, who had unloaded M-16s on their shoulders, and then steered between a pair of iron pipes that had been placed outside headquarters not to stop terrorists but to guide traffic. The only impediment was a roll of barbed...