Word: peto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the most interesting painter to reflect this mood was John Frederick Peto (1854-1907), who specialized in eye-fooling, hypernaturalistic still life. In his work, the image of the martyred Lincoln recurs frequently, to the point of obsession, usually taking the form of a daguerreotype pinned to the board or pushed under a tape. Peto was praised for what Americans traditionally liked, skill and illusionistic power (How the hell did he do that?). But his deeper anxiety and the hints of an imperiled social order, reflected in the entropy of his objects, were lost on viewers...
...epidemiologist Richard Peto, researchers at Oxford University pooled together the raw data from 133 studies conducted around the world on 75,000 women with operable breast cancer over the past four decades. Using a complex and unusual statistical process, they found that for women with early cancer, tamoxifen boosted 10-year survival rates from 71% to 75%. Although that kind of advance seems incremental, it translates into tens of thousands of lives each year...