Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free-market capitalism? Do you think the best recipe for prosperity is minimum Government interference in the economy? Devotees of the capital-gains break usually claim to be enthusiastic free-marketeers. Let us take them at their word. Does the capital-gains break make sense from a free-market point of view...
...career. Raphael was dead, and his former assistants were now maneuvering on their own for the big commissions. But with Luther raging against Vatican corruption and a reformist chill blowing through the papal court, Pope Clement VII was not going to make a pornographer his official painter. At this point Baldassare Castiglione, Raphael's friend and author of The Courtier, fixed Giulio up with his job in Mantua...
...fall of rocks and masonry, are done with literally colossal gusto. The whole windowless chamber seems ready, for a moment, to totter and fall on your head. No room in Italy gives you a clearer sense of the mannerist delight in bizarre illusion. If one could imagine a halfway point between Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes and the gee-whiz delights of Walt Disney, this would...
Gorbachev and Shevardnadze said once again last week that NATO and the Warsaw Pact should eventually be dismantled. NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner dismissed the suggestion as "a long-standing aim" of Soviet policy. Still, if there is no cold war to fight, it will be impossible at some point to avoid reconsidering the roles of the two military alliances. One of Worner's predecessors, Britain's Lord Ismay, said the goal of NATO was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down." As the Soviet threat recedes, NATO could serve to keep the West Germans...
...subjects she excelled in was mathematics. That skill not only led her toward architecture but also shapes her outlook on work. "If you present me with a problem, and if I like it and think I can work with it, I'll do it." That's an understatement. In point of fact, she finds herself driven to solve it, immediately...