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Word: munches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mayor threw open the doors of City Hall and Cantabrigians gathered inside yesterday to sip punch and munch Danish pastry, all to mark the birthday of General George Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Hall Scene of Washington Birthday Party | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

...Woman" is an equally disturbing comment on the effects of modernity on human beings. A tiny figure huddles in the background while its huge rabbit-like feet lunge into the foreground. The image is not comical; the clenched fists, open mouth and oversized staring eyes cry out like Edvard Munch's tortured souls...

Author: By Lois E. Nesbitt, | Title: A Tortured Tradition | 2/5/1980 | See Source »

...reign come!" The desire for coherent symbols ?religious, mystical, anything but political?was as important a part of the early modernist program as the desire to purify art to flat patches of color on a flat surface. B Gauguin wanted to make vast allegories of human fate; Edvard Munch, in Norway, elaborated an entire structure of symbolism to describe the 1 inner world that Freud, in the 1890s, was beginning to approach through clinical means. Even styles that now seem symbolically neutral could be charged with unexpected meanings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Masters of the Modern | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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