Word: jettisons
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Baker and Kozyrev decided to jettison the cumbersome arms control negotiating procedures of the Cold War, which involved large teams of experts working for years to reach agreement--if at all. They agreed instead to conduct the negotiations themselves with a completion goal of July, when President Bush and Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin meet in Washington...
...Hylan's company, in a typically dopey corporate move, to record the millionaire at sea, and who has now inherited Owen Browne as a subject instead. Strickland's modest fame rests on his ability to make people look ridiculous onscreen, and he is, by and large, willing to jettison Hylan and try out his technique on the photogenic and seemingly unassailable Brownes. Looking at some still photographs of the couple, Strickland's assistant remarks that Owen and Anne "don't resemble our usual run of scumbag." Strickland replies, "Trust...
...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...