Word: limning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...album explores a single subject: their love affair. This may sound familiar, yet Into the Sun has a sturdy, radiant optimism all its own. Home and Bathtub, two of the finest songs on the record, are typical: Lennon uses the warm sounds of acoustic guitars and glowing synthesizers to limn scenes of romanticized domesticity. He draws inspiration from the curvaceous Beatle melodies of the late 1960s, but Into the Sun is an eclectic mix that wanders across genres, mutating into bossa nova, jazz, R. and B. and back again, echoing Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chet Baker, Stevie Wonder and Brian Wilson...
Morrison has argued for years that stories and storytelling convey information, necessary information, available nowhere else. She made this case again in her Nobel Prize address: "The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. Although its poise is sometimes in displacing experience, it is not a substitute for it. It arcs toward the place where meaning may lie." To read Morrison as an allegorist or a sloganeer is to overlook completely the power...
...Williamsburg, Revolutionary Boston and Philadelphia's Liberty Bell to show his "deep democratic impulse"; Clinton's aides say these stopovers lend themselves to friendly lectures on what China needs to do to measure up; critics denounce it all as crass exploitation. How Jiang handles himself through these indignities will limn the image he leaves behind...
...what seems like an effort to compensate for the fact their star isn't, say, Daniel Day-Lewis, the creators of The Odyssey limn an even more brooding, contemplative hero than exists in Homer's epic. The original Odysseus is a heavyweight to be sure, but he is also a fast-talking, spirited wheeler-dealer, famous for his cunning. The creators might have had fun with that aspect of his character. Instead, they have conjured up a guy who seems to be on a very long journey to find his missing Prozac, even when he is rolling around...
...takers under withering Russian assault in Pervomayskaya, Dagestan, vowed to fight to the death. Chechens escalated the conflict as Russian President Boris Yeltsin shook up his cabinet, replacing Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Filatov, one of the last remaining liberals in his administration, with hawk Nikolai Yegorov. The developments limn the increasingly desperate straits of both the Chechen separatists and Russian president Boris Yeltsin. For Yeltsin, says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "Chechnya has been a disaster since it began. With the recent victories of the Communists and nationalists in national elections, the people of political saliency, the ones who really...