Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California appeals-court judge sailed smoothly through two days of questioning. Unlike Bork, he assured Senators of his respect for previous Supreme Court decisions and belief in an individual's "zone of liberty" from Government intrusion. Despite the grumblings of conservatives still smarting over the rejection of Bork, Kennedy seems assured of confirmation when the Senate reconvenes after Christmas recess...
...influenced his decision to propose direct presidential elections. Jae Heon is a student at Seoul National University, a hotbed of antigovernment student activism. "My son is very critical at times," Roh noted last summer. But after the candidate championed democracy, his son said for the first time, "Father, I respect you." Roh's daughter So Young, 26, is a graduate student at the University of Chicago...
...modern incarnation of the grand-scale history painter, producing didactic machines rather than the ephemeral and koan-like events (talking to a dead hare, sweeping a pavement) that were Beuys' specialty. Kiefer wants to involve his audience completely in the drama of the painting's construction; in this respect, he has learned a lot from the example of Jackson Pollock. As when deciphering the web of drips and mottlings in one of Pollock's "all-over" abstractions, the eye crawls its way across a Kiefer, mesmerized by detail: every square centimeter of those giant canvases is intended, somehow, to speak...
...started, and another worker pry loose a 6-ft.-long china bathtub with lion-claw feet. They flip it onto a mover's pallet and study the maker's mark on its bottom, as if they had unearthed an Egyptian artifact. "Ideal 3806," reads Tillotson with a sigh of respect. "It was made by Ideal on March 8, 1906." They trundle the fixture down a listing hallway to join half a dozen others at the top of the stairs. "You have to be careful doing this kind of work," observes Tillotson. "If you drop a 500-lb. tub on your...
...Flames also represent "the other guys," the uncouth opponents outside of the ECAC. In the past, these folks haven't given Harvard much respect...