Word: proof
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Only a handful of very precious art was part of the 2,000 unclaimed objects, and the proof of the overreaction surrounding "The Lost Museum" is that only one legitimate claim has resulted from the publication of Feliciano's book. Was the looting of French art from Jews and others a terrible aspect of World War II? Indeed. Looting of art has been part of French-German conflict since Napoleon, and it was not any better in the 1940s than it was in the 1800s. But France did its part immediately following the war, and the 2,000 objects that...
...Walker's choice of cuts in the C.K. Williams translation make this production an affair of many monologues. Tim Foley and Scott M. Brown, as the first and second messengers, deliver their hefty chunks of script with appeal. Foley's description of the first sortie on Mt. Cithaeron is proof of a working knowledge of the rhetorical value of adynata (women suckling wolves, milk spurting from the ground, and other such impossibilities...
Unless they've implemented a three-point conversion, this is proof that Barry is a brave crusader for more money spent on education! He's not afraid to make himself look like an ass as long as he delivers the message that America can no longer let other countries' kids beat us in math any longer! And if they do, just shoot...
...G.O.P. has long charged that the Democrats and the AFL-CIO must have coordinated their efforts in 1996 as the union shaped its $35 million campaign attacking individual Republican candidates. But the G.O.P. has never had much proof. Instead, new material in the hands of Senator Fred Thompson's investigating committee raises questions about whether groups friendly to his party knew where to target their ads and what message...
...building is structure and placemaking. It confronts the rethinking of structure and the formation of space with an impetuous, eccentric confidence. No "school of Gehry" will come out of it, any more than there could have been a "school" of Barcelona's Antonio Gaudi. His work is imitation-proof, but liberating...