Word: politicos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formal art education began in Paris in the early '20s. Balthus shied away from politico-aesthetic groups like the surrealists. After such a childhood, who needed the insecurities of the avantgarde? Instead he settled down to study the fathers: Poussin and Courbet in France and, supreme among the Italians, Piero della Francesca. The clarity and density of Piero's figures, their presence as signs in geometrically ordered space-that was what impressed Balthus. He also made designs for the stage, which in turn influenced his painting. Theater-plus-Piero gave the cues to The Street, 1933, an exceedingly...
...fanciful scenarios that dance through a politico's head, can be a far cry from what is likely. No one expects both the election of a Democratic president and, say, a turn to the right in Congress. More to the point, no one is really expecting the Republicans to make any major inroads into the Democratic majority in the House. The real action is going to be in the Senate, where a shift of six seats could return the Democrats to the top perch and return important committee chairmanships to senators like Sam Nunn (Armed Forces), Edward M. Kennedy (Labor...
...Listen," says long-time East Cambridge politico Alfred E. Vellucci, "I'll tell you about the difference between East Cambridge and Harvard Square--it's the silk stockings versus the cotton stockings...
...with its own deployments. Haig's principal arms-control deputy, Richard Burt, then director of State's Politico-Military Affairs Bureau, believed it would be almost impossible to get a deal before the new American missiles were in place. Therefore the U.S. needed a proposal that would look equitable to the West Europeans and that would shore up their resolve to go ahead with deployment of the new weapons in the face of a stalemate in Geneva. "The purpose of this whole exercise," the harddriving, sometimes abrasive Burt told his staff, "is maximum political advantage...
Leslie Brown has been in the State Department since 1955, and is presently the deputy director of the bureau of politico-military affairs...