Word: leonor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acerbic collagists ever to wield scissors. On the other hand, quite trivial artists are included; probably one cannot have a historical show of women's art without the boring and insipid fribbles of Marie Laurencin, but why include a third-rate vendeuse of exotic surrealist tack like Leonor Fini? In such company, artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kathe Kollwitz, Nataliia Goncharova and Sonia Delaunay look extraordinary; one's eye goes with relief to Goncharova's crude, provincial but raucously vital cubist portrait of her husband Mikhail Larionov (1913), the face kippered flat...
...committee chairmen realized quickly who stood to lose and who to gain from the package. Potential losers were naturally the most vociferous. "I'll fight to the death," proclaimed Missouri's Leonor Sullivan, the new chairman of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, who as chairman of Ways and Means is considered the single most powerful man in the House, kept silent publicly for the moment, but was expected to speak up-loudly-before the voting...
...President's food-price announcement definitely did not quiet angry voices in Congress and the labor movement that are calling for far more drastic action. Said Representative Leonor K. Sullivan, a Missouri Democrat: "The President, after issuing dire warnings about the dangers of controlling meat prices, did it. How can we believe all these dire warnings about the dangers of controlling interest rates and other areas?" Like her, Congressmen and labor leaders have become convinced that the only way to stop a debilitating new round of inflation is for the President in effect to declare his entire Phase...