Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ideas and careful thinking count more than images and the impression they create. His charges are hardly new, for they mirror perfectly the opinions of more than a few Democratic Congressmen and liberal economists. Republicans had heard such complaints all summer, and the import of such attacks could only pale in contrast to the drubbing the Reagan program received in the nation's financial markets...
...Yale's skull and bone does not settle such lingering questions a what killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and whether they were warm blooded or cold. Yet even the most trivia news from the dinosaur world seems to hold everybody in thrall. Adds Yale Pale ontologist John Ostrom: ''It's good busines for the museum and for Yale...
...their great light most writers of another, older sort look pale and foolish. It is not an age of literary craftsmen; most of the wordsmiths (and, lacking ideas, that is what many of them are) are left to moan about bad grammar and teach composition...
...Dusseldorf in February 1982) begins, as it were, on Weimar modernism, on the strains, dislocations and terrible urgencies of a time that Kitaj, 48, is too young to have experienced directly-Europe in the '20s and '30s. Gangsters and politicians, clowns and whores, drifting intellectuals and their pale cafe groupies, the doomed, the uprooted, the crushed, the demented-such is the cast of characters. They are imagined and mixed by a mind saturated not only in literature but in fantasies about reading, straying and witnessing...
...classify all of us animal lovers with the cat worshipers who apparently have neither a sense of humor nor a sense of proportion. Anybody who can't laugh at the pale black humor of 101 Uses for a Dead Cat is sick...