Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Such a peek was given last week by Mikhail Piotrovsky, since 1992 director of Russia's greatest art institution, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. While on a trip to the U.S., planning to set up an international funding body for his beleaguered museum, Piotrovsky disclosed that some 700 paintings and 2,000 archaeological objects looted from Germany, many from private collections, have been kept in storage in the Hermitage basements since 1945. Their existence was a state secret, and Piotrovsky himself did not see any of them until 1992. Piotrovsky plans to put 70 of the paintings...
...every now and then, I took a peek at the game...
...Carey is most proud of his work to make the Council more accessible to students. He personally invited student groups to Sunday night meetings and brought the Council to the students on two separate occasions. Full Council meetings occurred in North and Mather so that students could take a peek at the activities of its elected representatives...
Much of the book's impact may be explained on these grounds alone: Who can resist an unauthorized peek at the inner life of a legend? Le Premier Homme has a confessional feeling, unmediated by any of the distancing ironies and disguises Camus employed in works published during his lifetime. It cannot be known whether he was reaching for the looser and more lush writing style of this narrative or whether he did not live to pare away what he might have considered its excesses. But his hero, Jacques Cormery (the surname of Camus's paternal grandmother), is indistinguishable from...
Both shows recognized that viewers are fascinated with these stories less for the gory crime details than for the peek they provide into the extremes of human psychology. We watch to be reassured these people are monsters, not at all like you and me. And to face the fear that in some basic ways they are exactly like you and me. Krenwinkel and Van Houten today could be mistaken for high-school English teachers. Even Manson had a rare moment of recognizable ) humanity. Shown a videotape of Krenwinkel, whom he had not seen in nearly 25 years, he turned from...