Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...English taste, as early Elizabethan patronage becomes the acquisitive connoisseurship of the late 18th century, and the tiny enameled world of Nicholas Hilliard opens to the spacious marmoreal one of the Grand Tour and Burlington House. Only after the 1930s, | with the ethos of country-house patronage in full retreat before the incomprehensible 20th century, does the show become a bore--a silly diminuendo of John Piper watercolors and Asprey-style silver humidors. The cutoff point should have been...
...scenes from the putative movie and shifts toward melodrama in more elegant but equally sentimental scenes for the "actual" characters. In the most implausible sequence, an American actress offers herself as the prize to the "winner" of the debate between the novelist and the journalist. Even after this conscious retreat from political complexity, Map remains lively and provocative. Yet it leaves a viewer with the sad sense that its author shrank from the dangers of attempting a genuinely great play...
...spring and in the fall, the Shintaidoists go on a two to three day retreat--called "Gasshuku"--to study their art intensively. During the retreat, club members say, there are two Kekos a day, each lasting approximately three hours. The New England Gasshuku was held two weekends ago at Spring Hill Farm, 40 miles northwest of Boston...
...making the labor-for-tax argument the main reason behind the need for the universal draft program, Hart and Torricelli turn what could have been an attack on the Reagan right into a retreat...
...hard-driving entrepreneur is now in retreat. Last week, in a coup engineered by angry franchisees, Millard was forced to step down as ComputerLand's chief executive officer. He and his daughter Barbara, 27 whom Millard installed as president last November, relinquished all day-to-day operating control of the Oakland-based company...