Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Telephone connections with Burkina Faso were cut, but the State Department in Washington said some shooting was heard last night in Ouagadougou. Burkina Radio did not mention fighting and gave no hint of the former president's whereabouts or fate...
Some scientists are skeptical that the government, not to mention a private company, could undertake such a large project as tracking all the genes. Gilbert's reputation causes others to shed their doubts...
...familiar ring to it. The shock compactions of imagery, the off-kilter linkage of sex, death and Freud -- it all smacks of surrealism. But who would expect to hear it from a great photojournalist? Cartier-Bresson's fame is based on four decades of incomparable camera reporting. Mention his name and what comes to mind is his great surveys of life in China, the Soviet Union and his native France, not the enigmatic jokes of Max Ernst or the dreams on canvas of Magritte...
...something relentlessly newspaperish about the implication that the great events of history mostly involve war and politics. World War II inflicted an awful carnage -- at least 35 million dead -- but far more people than that have been kept alive by the invention of penicillin and other antibiotics, not to mention the pesticides that eradicated many epidemic diseases, a scientific revolution that helped double the world's population just since...
What we read in Zurbaran as influences of El Greco's "spirituality" struck Pacheco as mannered and distracting. He did not mention his ex-pupil in his book. But Pacheco was a dry, insipid painter, and Zurbaran's slightly awkward fierceness must have been disturbing to a man whose chief pride lay in being the father-in-law of Velasquez. Zurbaran would not master the sense of secular decorum, the discreet and far-reaching rhetorical power of Velasquez's much greater art. He did not try to, since he was mainly painting for monks, not connoisseurs. He and Velasquez studied...