Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the phrases which teach, even instruct, and despite the powerful anger these poems convey, their most striking element is love. Almost every poem ends with a phrase describing a healing, embattled love: "but the night was dark/ and love was a burning fence/ about my house," she writes at the end of "Gemini." "Quiet love hangs/ in the door of my house/ a sheet of brick-caught silk/ rent in the sun" concludes "Echo", also written in the 1950s. But "Dreams Bite", written in 1968, ends "I shall love/ again/ when I am obsolete...
These pieces are religious in their conception as well as their meaning. Lichacz dedicates all of her works to God. Before she begins a piece, she writes on the canvas the letters "AMDG," the abbreviation for the Latin phrase meaning "All for the honor and glory of God." She then paints or constructs the piece before trying to interpret its meaning: "It is after I have finished that I realize what I have painted," she says...
...late 1990, the late Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.), Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Or.), and representative Mickey Edwards (R-Ok.) all urged President Bush to cooperate with the War Powers Act before the initial mobilization in the Gulf. Using the phrase "New Age Monarchists" to describe some of his party's members, Edwards decried the president's ability and determination to act independently of the Congress...
...phrase "cruise control" was made for meets like this...
...this is wrong, all wrong. Correctly stated the phrase should run "Happy Birthday, Belatedly" or "I'm belated in wishing you Happy Birthday" or "It is an instance of belatedness in which I wish you Happy Birthday." Or "This wish for a happy day of birth is given unto you belatedly as I am slack, trifling forgetful, not a true friend...