Word: reflects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second and third rooms of the exhibitdisplay other important works from the 70s and 80sthat reflect the social and intellectual turmoilof the period. Vasilii Maksimov's humorouslytitled genre scene, "It's All In The Past," (1889)shows the crumbling lifestyle of the countrygentry: an old woman dreams in front of her oncegrand, but now delapidated old house...
...paintings of this period fall into fourlarge categories: genre paintings, landscapes,historical works and portraits. Yet theorganization of the exhibit ignores thesedistinctions in subject, dividing the paintingsinstead according to period: the four rooms plusthe hallway in the Fogg roughly reflect theprogression of Russian realism, from its originsin the elevated social consciousness of the 1850sto the emergence of a more abstract art in theearly 1900s...
...especially impressive works, "The BirchGrove" (1885-89) and "Silence" (1898) reflect theinfluence of the later French impressionists aswell: the interplay of the light on the trees andin the water, the looser brushstrokes and thelighter pallette combine to reveal what thepainter Nesterov has described as "that which ishumble and innermost within every Russianlandscape--its soul, its charm...
...pursuing bigger budgets. Military Critic Edward Luttwak says the Corps is "wallowing in complacency." Some officers serving under Kelley at the Pentagon claim that the prevalent attitude is bureaucratic defensiveness. "Semper fi," grouses an officer at Marine headquarters, "means don't say anything critical because it's going to reflect on Kelley." Self-criticism is precisely what the Corps needs, say some experts. What they have instead, says one of Kelley's subordinates, is a "lot of bumper-sticker bravado...
...plunge seems to reflect in part the public reaction to the leadership change within the coalition government. Last October, under the terms of a power-sharing plan worked out by Labor and Likud after the elections of 1984 resulted in political deadlock, Peres and Shamir swapped jobs. The intellectual Peres tends to fare better in the polls than the scrappy Shamir. In January, Peres' approval rating was 70%, Shamir's 49%. Although the Prime Minister was recently elected leader of the Herut Party, core of the Likud bloc, Smith says that a new poll due out in several weeks will...