Word: jettisoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defined art -- his own and others' -- by negations. He took to an extreme the sphinx's riddle of early Modernism, the question that leads an artist along the edge of the drop where the aesthetic impulse no longer has a toehold in common experience: How much can I jettison before this painting, this sculpture, ceases to be painting or sculpture, before its essence is lost along with its attributes...
Those who know the President best suspect that he has probably decided to jettison his deputy -- but not anytime soon. That would be too humiliating for both men. "He'll dump Sununu," says an official, "when there's a natural transition." But that might not arise until after the 1992 election...
Because his public career lasted most of the 20th century, Picasso has been seen through many distorting filters. The latest is the complacent feminist critique that seeks to jettison the idea of the "great artist" and to flatten his work into stereotypes of patriarchy and misogyny. But where is the book that gives us the actual...
Washington's decision to open a dialogue with Vietnam about Cambodia suggests that the U.S. may finally be ready to jettison the psychological baggage that has so burdened attitudes toward Hanoi and contorted the policies of the Carter, Reagan and Bush administrations in Southeast Asia. But a case can be made that it doesn't go far enough because it fails to address the critical question of relations with Vietnam itself...
True enough. But as Gorbachev prepared for this week's meeting of the 249- member Central Committee, there were signs that he had finally decided to adjust -- though not jettison -- the two hats he wears: one as General Secretary of the Communist Party, the other as President of the Supreme Soviet, the country's parliament. Closeted with his aides for several days at his dacha on the outskirts of Moscow two weeks ago, Gorbachev drafted a proposal that would reduce the party's role in government decision making and significantly enhance his powers as head of the Supreme Soviet...