Word: ought
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...show of paintings by the English artist Leon Kossoff, which opened last ( week at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York City, ought to provoke some reflection. Kossoff, 61, is hardly known in America. He is one of the two English tortoises (the other being Frank Auerbach) who are crossing the finish line just when most of the short-winded art hyped in the 1980s has gone dead on its feet. Both are, so to speak, redemptive artists, sustaining and enlarging a tradition of the expressive human figure that seems largely to have been colonized by ham-fisted ephemerids. When...
Exactly what sort of meaning the reader ought to pursue is itself a question. There are many mysteries for the reader to puzzle over. There are, for example, murders to solve and dreams to interpret...
...What he ought to say is, "if liberalism means that I am going to clean up the 300 or whatever toxic waste dumps in the United States, then I'm a liberal.' There are many other issues--Social Security, Medicare, the Marshall Plan--on which you can say 'yes, I'm a liberal'," Reese says...
...announced that a group of managers led by chief executive Ross Johnson, 56, was considering making a $17.6 billion buyout bid, to be put together by Shearson -- not KKR. The announcement came after Johnson delivered a startling message to the RJR Nabisco board of directors: "This company ought to be in play." News of the buyout proposal stunned Henry Kravis, who felt betrayed by Shearson's chairman, Peter Cohen. For one thing, Kravis and Cohen, 41, were friends and former classmates at the Columbia Business School. Moreover, Kravis had previously spoken to Johnson about a buyout of RJR Nabisco...
Most mapmakers devise projections with mathematics -- and nowadays the computer. But Robinson, who is considered the dean of U.S. cartographers, decided to take a different approach. "Mapmaking is as much an art form as a science," he argues. Thus he began by visualizing the way each country ought to look on a map, then turned to mathematics to delineate its shape. "What I really did," says Robinson, "was create a portrait of the earth...