Word: onto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunoco Ultra 94 truck had turned onto Brattle Street when it clipped...
...moral exhortation he laid out for this term--mend race relations, find an AIDS vaccine, fix public schools, demonize tobacco--when the polls that have shown rising support for his policies have also shown falling regard for his character? However cleanly he escapes this episode, it has been stitched onto him, like Peter Pan's wayward shadow, a dark image of recklessness and dishonor that risks becoming one of his presidency's most distinguishing characteristics...
...paint Close applied was molecule-thin, spritzed on the painstakingly prepared gesso surface with an airbrush, in strict accordance with the grid to which Close enlarged the original photo. It suggested an obsessive involvement on the artist's part, but kept the viewer distant, with nothing sensuous to hook onto--unless you had a thing about freckles and wens. This idea of deadpan, photo-derived "objectivity" was much in the air at the time--a small movement, Photo-Realism, was one of the spin-offs from Pop Art--but nobody took it as far as Close, or with such riveting...
Making sense of the world is no easy task. Out of our "constellations of memory" (stolen from Sartre), we graft purpose onto an acted past, we draw narratives commemorating that which we later feel is significant, we weave quilts of determination out of a randomized existence, and we build brick cities to connect everyone with everything and everything to a purpose. We want to make sense of the lived environment and often we do--too often. For if it is possible to do so from marble. Why we choose one over the other is a matter of preference, economy, geography...
...Radcliffe abdicated its responsibility for women's academic education and yet held onto nominal rights regarding admittance and diplomas. This relationship is inconsistent and insulting to Harvard's women...