Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Judge Norma Holloway Johnson has agreed. Persuading her to side with Starr against Clinton's assertion of Executive privilege was no easy job. Starr could not just argue that Lindsey had been around when all the key decisions were made and therefore might know something; he had to present concrete evidence of some wrongdoing that Lindsey and adviser Blumenthal are believed to know about...
This sets up a new dialogue between younger performers and their artistic forebears, perhaps producing not only a deeper relish of tradition but also a shrewder sense of how to build on it--or trash it. For the rest of us, it renders a part of the past perpetually present, and it forces us to view the present differently: behind the young actor, we can't help seeing the shadow of Brando. What's more, right in front of our noses, our era, our present, is becoming part of the retrievable past for the 21st century...
...instrument of evolution and human development. But Picasso had no more of a Utopian streak than did his Spanish idol, Goya. The idea that art evolved, or had any kind of historical mission, struck him as ridiculous. "All I have ever made," he once said, "was made for the present and in the hope that it will always remain in the present. When I have found something to express, I have done it without thinking of the past or the future." Interestingly, he also stood against the Expressionist belief that the work of art gains value by disclosing the truth...
Young teams present the most intriguing of coaching challenges. While lack of experience can spell disaster, lack of expectations can lead to surprising success. With the opening of the indoor track and field season, veteran Coach Frank Haggerty '68, would soon learn how his men's and women's teams would respond...
...those in the White House who prefer to delay things -- and that's most of them -- this is fantastic news," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "Starr wanted to present an airtight case to Congress this summer; now he'll have to wait for these decisions at least until fall. And Republicans won't touch the issue anywhere near the elections; whatever case Starr had would be immediately politicized and be robbed of its credibility...