Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such predictions might turn out to be no more accurate than the early forecasts of a long and bloody ground war in Kuwait. But one parallel to Vietnam looks ominous: limited military actions succeed but the civil war goes on, so the U.S. and friends are drawn step by step into more extensive fighting. Or the allied forces might impose an uneasy truce but then be unable to leave lest the slaughter resume. Says John Steinbruner, director of international studies at the Washington-based Brookings Institution: "This has all the earmarks of Northern Ireland," where British troops have fought...
...studies for commissions. He worked in many media -- chalk, charcoal, crayon, pencil -- but his favorite was pen and ink wash, from which he produced brilliant summaries of movement, light and shade. The trace of the pen twists and flourishes, now with a liquid agitation, now in sheaves of parallel hatching as tense as wires. Nodes of darkness in a head or down the flank of a torso link up across the whiteness of the paper, and the fearlessness of tonal range attests to Guercino's mastery. He could work passages of light and dark that no reproduction can successfully convey...
...Refugees. "We are hearing stories about families having to watch fathers and sons walk through minefields, and summary executions for the hell of it." While comparisons to the international disbelief, blindness and indifference that enabled Hitler to carry out his "final solution" are overblown, Baker hinted at such a parallel on May 24 at an international conference in Lisbon. It was just bracing enough to renew Western determination to halt the slaughter...
...think it was a tense year, and that seemed to parallel a tense year for the rest of the nation," says BSA President Zaheer...
Moreover, his art -- another Shakespearean parallel -- always testifies to the fact that when a great artist breaks the mold, the result still pays homage to the mold itself. There can hardly be a more intensely moving portrait of a woman's naked body than his Bathsheba with King David's Letter (1654). At root it is a Titianesque conception, heir to those sumptuous Venetian nudes; but Rembrandt avoids idealism, suffuses the real imperfect body with thought and a sense of moral reflection, re-creates the structure of flesh in terms of an amazing directness of "rough" brush marks. We think...