Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baffling and in many ways terrifying present in 1996. Science fiction is always about the year in which it is written. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a McCarthyite fantasy. Today, I think, the alien is inside, a virus of one kind or another." He cites J.G. Ballard's remark: "The only truly alien planet is Earth...
...hard to pass judgment on what people did back then," says a French army colonel who is also looking to bring Brossard to justice. This remark is the crux of the novel. Does a time come when people must be forgiven for doing what they mistakenly believed was right or unavoidable? Or should evil never be forgiven or forgotten? By challenging the reader to confront these questions, The Statement is ultimately unforgettable...
...delight in the fleeting moment, the "effect" of light, color and atmosphere, to which Impressionism was dedicated. Underneath the delectable surface was structure, like reefs and rocks beneath a smiling sea, and that was what Cezanne sought and obsessively analyzed--the bones and masses of the world. His famous remark about seeking in nature "the cylinder, the sphere, the cone" need not be taken literally--he was never a geometric painter, still less an abstract one, though later abstractionists would build on his work. And yet his greatest paintings bear abstract constructions of tremendous amplitude and sureness...
...something that he probably could have explained away after some necessary minor embarrassment? He could have apologized, said it was an unintentional mistake, a technical mix-up of the fruit salad. He might have offered his resignation to the President, which the President might then, with a gracefully deprecating remark, have refused...
...statutory rape isn't enough notoriety for JOEY BUTTAFUOCO. The unemployed car mechanic started a ruckus when he accused Amy Fisher's father of abusing his daughter. "Diddled" was how Buttafuoco put it on Howard Stern's national radio show. Elliot Fisher took a dim view of this remark and phoned in to deny it vehemently. After that, things got really ugly--even Mary Jo Buttafuoco joined in--and Stern found himself doing something uncharacteristic: restoring sanity...