Word: paroxysmal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another paroxysm of violence-and a Palestinian shift...
...Easter Massacre, as it was soon called, was Haddad's revenge for the deaths of three of his militiamen, who had been killed by Palestinian land mines. The brutal attack proved to be only the beginning of yet another paroxysm of violence in war-ravaged Lebanon last week. That same afternoon, Israeli fighter-bombers were hammering Palestinian positions in and around Beaufort Castle, the old Crusader ruin on the Litani River, five miles across the Lebanese border. Palestinian units responded with Katyusha rocket attacks against villages that straddle the Israeli-Lebanese border. Artillery duels broke out again between Syrian...
...Demoiselles, no cubism. But there was a long stretch between them while Picasso, grappling with late Cézanne, crossed from an art of paroxysm to one of exquisitely nuanced analysis. In a work like Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table, 1909, Picasso picked up on Cézanne's monumentality. Originally Picasso meant to paint a cabaret scene with figures at a table, in homage to Cézanne's Cardplayers, but the image mutated into still life, leaving the drinkers' legs fossilized, as it were, in the sloping table legs. The great brown half-moon of the tabletop, the bread...