Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stardom a little too seriously. The book concludes with an appendix comprising "unfinished pieces" which Bernhard says she's included because she "always find[s] it interesting and revealing to see what people don't include." She should probably have left well enough alone; few will find Bernhard's reject pile "interesting" enough to rummage through these pages of sparse jottings--some haphazardly typed, some scrawled by hand, many with cross-outs, corrections and editing arrows left intact...
...title had it) "a red-skinned sorcerer," into the same portrait show as Paulhan or his friend the painter Jean Fautrier, what was he up to? Ironizing, certainly, on the idea of the portrait as effigy of virtue. But also -- despite his often repeated claim to reject tradition absolutely -- paying complete homage to an earlier French artist: Honore Daumier, whose tiny clay effigies of politico-literary notables known as Les Celebrites du Juste-Milieu, wizened, compressed and distorted, are the obvious and inescapable grandfathers of all Dubuffet's turnip...
Every generation likes to believe it is uniquely dysfunctional: the Lost, the Beat, the Me generations. It's the nature of youth to reject and rebel. "We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority," D.H. Lawrence once said. Many people in their 20s believe baby boomers have treated the economy, the environment and even the institution of marriage the way a reckless driver treats a rental car. The Third Millennium may fail, but it's a signal that another generation -- angered by the deficit and bitter over retirees who got theirs while the getting...
...other skeptics were allowed a sentence or two expressing doubt about the reality of the ark and the Deluge. But their views were quickly swept away by another deluge -- of dubious testimony by "experts," many of them creationists who take the Bible's revelations literally and reject much of modern science...
...commission's final report must be on the President's desk by July 1. He can kill it or send it on, in toto, to Congress, but he cannot pick it apart. Congress can accept it by taking no action, or reject it by resolution of both houses, a move subject to a presidential veto. Given the cutbacks in defense spending and the need to close down some bases, the pressure to approve the commission's final list is likely to be overwhelming...