Word: rams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech Reagan read was not an introduction of Doug Ginsburg to the nation, but the opening salvo in a highly partisan and combative plan authored by extremists in the Administration. Their goal was to ram down the throats of the Senate and the nation an unkown and unproven judge whose constitutional views would be hard to rebut because they would be hard to find and who, at age 41, could sit on the Court for decades. To make matters worse, officials did not deny that it was hoped the selection of the Jewish Ginsburg would pre-empt the opposition...
...York City's program does not ram the mentally ill into institutions. Instead the program gets the extremely ill into the hands of evaluators; who can prescribe treatment and locate housing in community residences for their patients. Opponents to the plan, lead by the American Civil Liberties Union, charge that the program constitutes a violation of individual rights. But the program only plucks those who do violence to others or themselves, and they can be held for no more than 90 days. People who are in need of help will get it now, whereas before the city was powerless...
Again, Barfly would be a good movie if it didn't constantly ram the sentiment down our throats that art can only flourish in sordid surroundings. I had no objection to Henry's choosing poverty over wealth, if that's what made him comfortable. But I didn't see why I and the rest of the audience should wallow in voyeuristic guilt over not having done the same thing. There's something much too pat and easy about a writer who presents his own lifestyle as the only possible way to live the creative life...
...painting; the flat color on a flat plane, the "dictatorship of the medium," had killed off the project of making abstract forms that, by moving in deep pictorial space, reawakened one's sense of the body. His way of doing this, in paintings from the Indian Birds series like Ram gangra, 1978, was to get rid of the solid back plane and replace it with a mesh support, so that the shapes seemed to hang in the air. The relatively sedate movement of form in Stella's earlier work became an agitated, dense array, and the vividness of color seemed...
...would really be nice to bring [the Cvo Cup] back," Harvard Co-Captain Lanny Thorndike said. "We went up there with a ram-shackled squad [only 25 ruggers made the seven-hour trip] last year, and got booted...