Word: neutral
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...that Magritte was Belgian, not French. The French Surrealists made a point of public provocation, inserting themselves into politics, issuing pretentious manifestos. Not so their Belgian cousins; "the subversive act," said one, the writer Paul Nouge, "must be discreet." Magritte's style, as it evolved, was studiously neutral. His early work, in the 1920s, was mainly exercises in late Cubism -- the "tubist," streamlined, geometrical forms of Fernand Leger and Amedee Ozenfant, shapes that might have been made from metal. The artist who clearly had the biggest impact on Magritte, turning him toward fantasy and irrational images, was Giorgio de Chirico...
...painted in a perfectly deadpan style, neutral rather than "primitive" -- serviceable, in a word. It came partly from posters and partly from kitsch art. "This detached way of representing things," he remarked, "seems to me to suggest a universal style, in which the quirks and little preferences of an individual play no role." It is meat-and-potatoes figuration, with no pretensions; if there were any pretensions in this world, where flotillas of loaves sail by in the evening sky like flying saucers and an innocent eye opens in the middle of a slice of ham on your plate, they...
Weld told The Crimson that he thinks the GOP will hold a neutral or pro-choice position in 1996. But David McIntosh, executive director of Vice President Dan Quayle's Councilon Competitiveness, said the Republicans'pro-choice sentiments are too strong to change.McIntosh does, however, predict a shift in theRepublican rhetoric on the issue...
...Republican Party will be neutral or pro-choice," Weld said...
...sides are being helped along the way bymediation. Shattuck yesterday gave the firstofficial confirmation that a neutral outside partywas facilitating the negotiations...