Word: objections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embodies the paradox of what the Spanish Counter-Reformation expected in church painting: that extreme spirituality lay in extreme realism. "Sometimes you might find a good painting lacking beauty and delicacy," Pacheco wrote in his Art of Painting. "If it possesses, however, force . . . and seems round like a solid object and lifelike and deceives the eye as if it were coming out of the picture frame," the lack of those qualities was forgiven. The real image made Christ or a saint real, ready to speak to you from the wall...
...said members who object to the party program will be asked to leave, but "can still play their own role in their own positions...
Lots, as it turns out. Take, for example, Fatal Attraction. It is your standard slasher scenario. Pheromones sing sly duets in a seemingly innocuous setting. The sex object is cute and easily seducible, but interested only in an encounter that is brief and zipless. Whereupon the rejected partner falls to obsessive brooding and proceeds down a darkening path from harassment to stalking with a deadly weapon. Uh-huh. At best it sounds like a cult classic in the making...
...passenger, it is bad enough having to worry about how an airplane--an object clearly heavier than air even without the usual stock of complementary drinks--can possibly stay aloft longer than a football (which is an object lighter than an airplane, though considerably less comfortable for long journeys). But now there is the additional problem of an enemy not particularly deterred by the prospect of his demise...
...water polo team: This may be the most strenous sport since rollerball. The supposed object: to toss the ball into the net. The secret agenda: to drown the opponent. Perhaps this is overestimating the vicious nature of the game, but water polo is the most under-appreciated sport around. It falls somewhere between ballet and bull-riding in the gracefulness department, and has more scoring than field hockey and soccer combined...