Word: reckoner
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There are moments in Blake's large output when the linearity of his nudes becomes nearly absurd - they resemble skinned rabbits, thongs of formalized pink tendon. But against these, one must reckon such masterpieces of the imagined figure as Elohim Creating Adam, 1795, with the repressive God of the Old Testament, terrible in the weight of his beard and vast wings, waking the serpent-bound Adam to a life of toil and subjection. And his sense of dramatic terribilità, in the midst of the grotesque, was unparalleled. Few demonic images in Western art radiate such a nightmarish charge...
...factor, of course, is the weather itself. New England has had an unseasonably warm November, while last year's was "the coldest in 30 years," says the New England Fuel Institute's Charle Burkhardt. Unfortunately, that help may be ending. Experts at the U.S. National Weather Service reckon that the odds are 4 to 3 that the nation's Northeastern quarter will be colder than normal through January. But for the Western half of the nation, above-normal temperatures are predicted-at the same odds...
...states that have failed to ratify the amendment.- Some 40 national political and professional groups-including the National Education Association, the National Lawyers Guild and the Democratic National Committee-have agreed to take part in the boycott, and targets are already feeling the pressure. Miami Beach authorities reckon that their city has already lost $9 million in forgone convention business as a result. For its part, NOW estimates the loss for New Orleans at $7 million; Chicago, $15 million; Las Vegas, $30 million; Atlanta, $12 million.' The boycott was born last February as the Nevada legislature was voting...
Coming off a strong performance against Yale last week, the Bruins held URI to just 162 yards for the game. On the record sheets Brown is 0-1 in league play. On the field, they will be a force to reckon with...
...Matisse strewed his cut-out nouns of shape-ivy leaf, diver, parakeet, dancer-work in the same way. They are not backgrounds; they are an enveloping fluid, a space that seems as active as its contents but, being "unpainted," is wholly different. Every painter since 1950 has had to reckon with the peculiar void Matisse invented with his cutouts. Not one has equaled their suppleness as décor, or their episodic grandeur as painting...