Word: proofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Secret History, a best-selling novel about New England college students and murder. Notes have been pasted up declaring, in Greek letters, "Luke is God." The stories are overwhelming the town. "We don't know what the motive was," says Mayor Foster, who says there is no proof of a hit list or of cult activity. "But there's no way to justify this. It's made me sick. I'm just sick...
...stitch together a moral politics by introducing legislation that resonates with a variety of groups. They appeal to the middle class with promises of tax credits for school-related spending, to the lower class with promises of inner-city development packages, to soccer moms with promises of child-proof gun locks. The other social institutions ought to move now, before the next wave of polling data comes in, and the parties get it together...
Under FAA rules, Denver's medical certificate, which must accompany a valid flying license, was denied because of the arrests. To reinstate it, Denver would have had to petition the FAA with proof he no longer suffered from an alcohol problem...
...including three Rembrandts, five Degas and a Vermeer--from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. On Friday the Boston Herald published several black-and-white photographs that purported to show some of the stolen paintings. And the Herald said that in collaboration with ABC News, it had near certain proof that the Rembrandts in the photos were authentic. The paper pointed to some minute but telltale signs--a stretcher mark here, a frayed edge there--that bolstered its stunning claim...
Take for instance Pollini's performance of Chopin's first Ballade in G minor, the second item on the program after the opening Prelude No. 25. In spite of a few oddly reassuring finger slips (proof, perhaps, that Pollini is not a cybernetic organism) the interpretation seemed scarily authoritative. A percussive left hand and a sometimes sotto voce right transformed this standby into a sleeker, more macho epyllion...