Word: links
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Haskell, a well-known feminist, comes to appreciate the instincts that link women "with their inborn sense of suffering," which takes her beyond simplistic movement ideology. "Envy and all the harsh judgments . . . are suspended as we return to some primal bond, where nurturing preceded rivalry." But as comforting as the bonds forged in the intensive-care unit are, she doubts they can last. "Friendships should begin slowly . . . If the opening chords are the life and death notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, there's no place to go from there...
...rare, fatal cancer called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. But for some mysterious reason, the veterans who suffer from this cancer were predominantly sailors who were stationed off the Viet Nam shore and who had relatively little exposure to the defoliant. Even though the CDC could find no link between Agent Orange and increased cancer, Veterans Affairs Secretary Edward Derwinski immediately authorized compensation for about 1,800 Viet Nam veterans who have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. They will receive monthly payments...
...Spence committee has increasingly worked on policy development, and has provided an important link between the administration and academia. Aside from Spence and his two top administrators--Associate Dean for Administration Robert A. Rotner and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Phyllis Keller--eight "academic deans" now sit on this inner council...
Decrying the dehumanizing effects of pornography, a leading feminist scholar last night told a group of 120 in the Lamont Forum Room that a strong link exists between violence toward women and attempts to treat the female body as a sex object...
...great deal, as it turned out. Ripeness was all. Monet produced his best work after he turned 50, and it came to form the essential link between symbolism, with its cult of the nuance and its obsession with "getting behind" ordinary reality, and abstract painting. You can hardly imagine Jackson Pollock's all-over drip paintings, for instance, without the example of late Monet. But the real value of Monet's work lies not in what it predicted or how it was used by later artists but in itself: its intensity and breadth of vision, its lyrical beauty...