Word: presenter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, Johnson's advisers persuaded him that his chances were still alive. Armed with a new bid for $108 a share, Johnson arrived the next morning at the East Side law offices where the special, bid-selecting panel of five directors was meeting. He demanded to present his proposal...
What do these lucky people have in common? They are united in a pact of longevity by the way their bodies process a waxy, odorless substance present in every human being: cholesterol. Cholesterol? The nemesis of every health- conscious person? The object of a swelling tide of medical diatribes against overeating and underexercising? The primary cause of coronary heart disease, which last year caused 1.5 million heart attacks and 550,000 deaths in the U.S.? How can this be? Isn't cholesterol the enemy...
...mastery does not mean a talent frozen in its own fancy high-mindedness, a rhetorical grandeur. It means the kind of range, flexibility and intelligence of response that enables an artist to pass on his culture -- his sense of past art and what it means -- to the present, refracting it through his own experiences without nostalgia or loss. Mastery does not kid itself in distinguishing between a real relation to tradition and one based on expediency. It does not mean facility. (Cezanne had it, in the teeth of exhausting struggles with the motifs that show at every point...
...just that in a work like Untitled (Ocean Park), 1984, you see more of the process of formation, the pentimenti, the unfolding of thought than you do in the oils. For by now, everything Diebenkorn found worth keeping in his past seems available to his perceptions in the present. This is known as artistic maturity. It is an inspiring sight, and Diebenkorn's drawing is its continuous medium...
...more pressed for time, they frequently resort to toys that do the parenting for them: the bears that tell bedtime stories, the plastic heroes who teach virtue. For many children, a toy whose nostalgic appeal and sheer pleasure lure parents back into the playroom may be the best present...