Word: michel
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...they push away as well as for what they embrace. So it was with Paul Gauguin, who for a century has fired the escapist imagination with his rejection of conventional life and academic painting for la vie Tahitienne and a bold new art. Paul Gauguin: Life and Work, by Michel Hoog (Rizzoli; 332 pages; $85), presents the Gauguin legend on a grand scale, from the artist's exotic Peruvian boyhood to his South Seas idyll. Hoog, chief curator at Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris, integrates the painter's biography with a broad representation of his work. The result forcefully...
...agreement on a bipartisan package of spending reductions and revenue increases before Nov. 20, when $23 billion in arbitrary cuts will take hold under the Gramm-Rudman law. The committee began the week with optimism all around, based on a plan proposed by House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois that would cut the deficit by $30 billion in fiscal 1988 and $45.5 billion in 1989. Michel's proposal was considered a breakthrough because it managed to elicit at least tentative support from the President, even though it contained the tax increases ($8 billion in 1988) that might satisfy congressional...
...Maybe it just gets darkest before the dawn," said House Republican Leader Bob Michel of Illinois...
...continue to back contra funding criticized the awarding of the ) peace prize as premature. Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, suggested that the Norwegians "ought to save the peace prize until they see what happens in the future." House Minority Leader Bob Michel complained, "I don't know that the Norwegians got all that much to say about what goes on in Central America." Said Arias: "There will always be people with small spirits...
...Michel said she apologized to concentrators forother administrative problems, such as theoriginal lack of classrooms in Harvard Yard(sections were eventually held in Quincy andKirkland Houses) and the department's "somewhatchaotic" move to 51 Brattle Street during thefirst week of the school year