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...especially impressive works, "The BirchGrove" (1885-89) and "Silence" (1898) reflect theinfluence of the later French impressionists aswell: the interplay of the light on the trees andin the water, the looser brushstrokes and thelighter pallette combine to reveal what thepainter Nesterov has described as "that which ishumble and innermost within every Russianlandscape--its soul, its charm...
...music played on clocks and radios that are yoked together. They run a mile or two to ward off heart disease, chomp high-fiber cereals to ward off cancer, and dress in the fashions of the times, which may seem starchy to you but in fact have never been looser. They proceed then to offices populated with machines designed to give them back the free time they have nearly forgotten how to use. En route they pass some people with telephones in their cars, dealing with those they cannot reach because of traffic jams. Some others they pass make homes...
Less visible but more formidable was the National Rifle Association, the powerful 3 million-member lobby that had pushed for looser gun controls with a $1.6 million campaign. In the end, N.R.A. muscle spoke louder than the policemen's protests. By a vote of 286 to 136, the House markedly weakened federal regulation of interstate gun trafficking, rewriting restrictions that had been passed in 1968 following the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. The outcome, said Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, was "a genuine disgrace. It's a classic example of the power...
...This year we will be a little bit looser," he added. "We'll be ready...
...addition, the CCA is faced with increasingly hostile attacks from Cambridge realtors, who say that rent control policies actually force up city rent levels, and urge residents to vote for one of the Independent candidates. The Independents, who form a looser coalition, are generally more conservative and tend to have deeper roots in city neighborhoods...