Word: see
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many observers--including the author of the Times piece--see these sudden and unexpected changes and reforms as wholly or primarily symptomatic of Gorbachev's unilateral initiative to "reduce the burdens and the risks" of the East-West confrontation...
...Royal Academy show includes quite a lot of De Chirico's more debatable pseudoclassical work from the '20s -- this is now de rigueur, thanks to its popularity among postmodernists, who see it as a daring and prophetic form of backwardness -- as well as the paintings of his hardly less talented brother, the painter-composer-dram atist who worked under the name of Alberto Savinio and turned the late scheme of metaphysical painting into an even wilder pastiche than it had already become...
...lurid bombast of even the better works of Cucchi, such as the droopy head that lies like a huge Dalinian watch along the cemetery roof in Stupid Picture, 1982, could have been thought heroic in scale. In fact, there is less scale in such work than brute size. To see what the scale of an image can mean in terms of real address to the eye, one must go a few rooms back and look, once more, at early De Chirico and Sironi...
...intervals most of my life, ever since I was eleven years old in Australia and my father first issued me a single-shot .22 and two bullets and told me to bring back one rabbit. I hope to keep doing it as long as I can walk and see...
...love hunting have much more to fear from the backlash of public opinion caused by the N.R.A.'s pigheadedness than we do from the Government. Sensible hunters see the need to follow the example of other civilized countries. All fireable guns should be licensed; delays and stringent checks should be built into their purchase, right across the board; and some types, including machine guns and semiautomatic assault weapons, should not be available to the civilian public at all. It is time, in this respect, that America enter the 20th century, since it is only a few years away from...