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...this case, better late than never. No such comprehensive view of German art has ever been set before an American public; from the romantic visions and esoteric metaphors of painters like Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich in the first decades of the 19th century, to the robust dash and splash of Lovis Corinth at its end, there are 150 works by 30 artists, and they help fill a gaping hole in our sense of the actual patterns of European culture. The fact, to put it simply, is that German art got left out of American taste on 19th...
...other extreme and pro duce detailed confessions even when nobody asked them. The nation surely had no "need to know," as the White House says, but Jimmy Carter confessed to Playboy in 1976 that he had felt lust in his heart for women other than his wife. That robust literary charlatan Frank Harris went to the trouble of inventing all kinds of elaborate sexual adventures to confess; with both Carter and Harris, confession shaded into exhibitionism...
Output of goods and services in the first quarter rose at a sizzling 6.5% annual rate, and worker productivity, which had been sagging alarmingly for more than a year, registered a surprisingly robust 3.9% rate of gain...
...that aspiring Princesses of Wales should meet. "Second was the ability to do the job. Very few people understand how many really dreary things royalty must do. Third, she must be seen to have the potential to bear heirs to the throne [meaning that she should look young and robust]." Presumably Lady Diana has met and passed these obstacles...
...sticking it in a realistic setting. I try to say, 'O.K., what would really happen if you walked outside, and there's this giant alligator there?' " What happens is the basis for a scary, sensible movie with a skewed sense of humor. Alligator is a robust mutant of Them! and other '50s horror movies that took a no-nonsense approach to the threat of atomic apocalypse. Civilians run from the deadly menace; policemen walk toward The Thing because that's their job. Alligator provides a terse manual on the care, feeding and ultimate annihilation...