Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Forbes has folded, and Pat Buchanan remains on the hustings, a distant and noisy drummer. The scenario presents a curious and unique situation in American history, a Senate majority leader and a President, opposing candidates in a general election, who must work out some modus operandi while trying to knife each other in the back. (The only sitting Republican Senator--not even a majority leader--elected President in this century was Warren Harding. His slogan: "Return to Normalcy.") For the next few months, voters will be able to observe a complex, multilevel game in which Dole and Clinton will...
...that struck me the most, however, is called "Mom Overboard!" and portrays a woman who left the fast track at work to stay home with her kids. Fed up with a child who called the sitter "Mama" and surprised by the "double-edged knife" of the maternal instinct, Sera stayed home with her children--and ended up micromanaging their every waking hour...
...division runs through the heart of the party. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy went to the ramparts last month and picked up the bugle that Buchanan has been blowing in Dole's ear all along. Kennedy talked about wage stagnation and soaring corporate profits, and then he drove in the knife to Clinton's "values" crusade. "The V chip makes sense," Kennedy said, "but it is no substitute for college loans. It will not buy clothing or food. When the economy is wrong, nothing else is right...
...woodcuts marks an important period in both Feininger's work and German post-war works in general The process of chiseling and cutting figures in wood lent itself to Feininger's Cubist-inspired "transformation and crystallization" methods. Fragmenting and recomposing his choppy images was perfectly suited to the carving knife...
Between 1990 and 1992, Womack used a knife and his hands to mutilate hundreds of rare books--including many written in esoteric languages and others related to early Christianity, sagas and organic chemistry--in the Harvard and Northeastern University libraries...