Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Time Lag. Outright forgeries can usually be detected by chemical analysis (use of pigments that had not been invented at the time of the original painting, electronic dating of the wood or canvas or clay). But even the most careful scholarship is uncertain. Says Horst W. Janson, chairman of the department of fine arts at New York University: "Nothing can be taken for granted. There is no such thing as the final word. What you read on a label in a museum hardly ever reflects the latest state of scholarship-there is an inevitable time lag, in part...
...Faculty, which a decade before might have banned the new publication outright, now held itself to a mild expression of outrage. The Magenta, on its part, largely observed the proper amenities in editorials, although it stood firm to a policy of identifying every editorial as the opinion of all the editors, not just the author. This policy was particularly useful, the Fiftieth Anniversary Book relates, when the Faculty came round looking for the man who had referred to one of their number as "a little tin god on wheels...
...eleven women who had been hospitalized in mental asylums and eleven who had had sexual relations with their therapists. Yet lesbians, blacks and feminists make up only a small proportion of all psychiatric patients. Therapists who have intercourse with their patients are not typical either; those who are not outright charlatans tend to be both emotionally disturbed and the most poorly qualified members of their profession...
...shooting the film, Bertolucci committed himself from the outset to being totally explicit. "I decided that to suggest and allude instead of saying it outright would create an unhealthy climate for the spectator," he explains. For greater realism, he insisted on using an actual apartment rather than a set for the scenes between Paul and Jeanne, although he then chose very unrealistic colors and lighting to heighten the atmosphere. He required that the decor be in reds, oranges and flesh tones-"all uterine," in the words of Tango Set Designer Maria Paola Maino. The light that slanted into the rooms...
...peculiarly virulent combination of pretty detail and outright tripe seemed to plague Jim Blum's so-called analysis of the Paris negotiations in The Crimson of January S. Does he really believes that Nixon's resumption of the saturation bombing of Hanoi and Haphong "was based on a "misunderstanding in regard to the definition of victory...