Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patron Chantelou in 1645, "like your Parisian painters who make a sport of turning out a picture in twenty-four hours." But in his Roman youth, he could and did turn them out, and it would be idle to pretend that all early Poussin is on the same level. Some paintings are much less "finished" than others. A few are hackwork (such as Hannibal Crossing the Alps, done for Pozzo, who had a thing about elephants). And one painting from San Francisco's De Young Museum, The Adoration of the Golden Calf, does not survive comparison; it is clearly...
What about the rhetorical level at which the campaign has been conducted? We are a long way, certainly, from the intellectual intricacies of the Lincoln- Douglas debates (which, incidentally, occurred in a senatorial, not a presidential, election). But even the crudest gestures, if unpacked with care, will be found to contain some serious intent...
Nixon had a fascinating walk. If you put a carpenter's level on his head, the bubble would stay steady as he went along. The action was mostly in his knees, a sort of Bob Hope sidle. Not an athlete's walk and not one powered by an athlete's muscles. The captain on the bridge did not want to know much about engine room and propellers. Smooth...
...investigation, the largest and most complex yet into money laundering, was called Operation C-Chase for the $100 bills (C-notes) that are the denomination of choice in major drug deals. While previous probes had netted mostly low-level operatives, C-Chase bagged far bigger suspects. The arrests were based on indictments handed up by federal grand juries in Tampa and other cities. The indictments named some 80 defendants and the first banking company ever charged in the U.S. with money laundering: the Luxembourg-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the seventh largest privately held financial institution...
Megan Holbrook placed sixth in Level One competition and Diane Ortiz also rode for Harvard in the show...