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...whale -- also drew figures like slugs. Still, when you look at the figures in Ryder's The Story of the Cross, whose "awkward posture and flattened quality" the catalog rather optimistically likens to Duccio and Cimabue, you know that any such comparison is impertinent. The Ryder is pious kitsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: America's Saintly Sage | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...course, it would be a futile, almost meaningless gesture for any one of us to volunteer for combat out of principle. Those one or two pious students would fight and possibly die, and the system would continue more or less unchanged...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Bring Back the Draft | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Saw Maung was preparing his counterattack. After a pious prayer to the Buddha, he outlawed then abolished some Buddhist sects. Saw Maung then sent his troops into Mandalay's monasteries "to clean out unlawful organizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma A People Under Siege | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Despite many pious promises by candidates to forswear such tactics, negative campaigning is here to stay, in part because it is easier to tear down an opponent's reputation than to take strong positions on controversial issues. "If there hadn't been negative campaigning, no one would have had anything to talk about," says political scientist Paul Green in Chicago. "Politics is a giant minute waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keep The Bums In | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...esteemed and pious tradition of a certain late night television host (not to mention a certain Crimson alum), I'll offer my top 10 commandments...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: The Purity of Baseball | 10/26/1990 | See Source »

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