Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Schama is author of several books, including the bestseller Citizens, an account of the French Revolution, and The Embarrassment of Riches, an examination of Golden Age Dutch culture and art
"Time passes, and marathon runners get tired. This has been a very long race -- too long. I feel I am a slave of the revolution."
The diffusion of Daumier's satirical prints has been such that they tend to overshadow the rest of his work. Toiling against unrelenting deadlines, working sometimes on eight stones at a time, he made literally thousands of them for magazines like Le Charivari. In fact there were only two moments...
Over the course of the renewed campaign, Clinton substituted "contribution" for sacrifice when explaining some of the 'extreme measures' that the economy's long-term health requires. Even this euphemistic phrase caused paranoid pundits to write about the 'austerity revolution'.
If Clinton left himself a single challenge, it is to prove that his revolution is for real, led by a "New Democrat" who has been chastened by the failures of his well-intentioned predecessors. He may speak of "investments" rather than spending and "contributions" rather than taxes, but more than...