Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...works of Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis (quite apart from the thousands of yards of lyric acrylic on unprimed duck done by their many forgotten imitators) were basically huge watercolors. But there was little in the soak-stain methods of color-field painting that did not seek and repeat watercolor effects. The big difference lay in the size, the curtness and (sometimes) the grandeur of the image, and in the scrutiny it received from Greenberg's disciples, rocking and muttering over the last grain of pigment in the weave of these canvases, like students of the Talmud disputing...
...when Markey withdrew from the Senate race to run for his old seat, he caused a reverse chain reaction, since a race against such a strong incumbent would have been political suicide. Barrett learned of Markey's decision on the day when he would have filed campaign papers to seek reelection. Unable to meet the deadline, he was left without any elected office...
Justice Department Spokesman Terry Eastland contends that the naysayers have misinterpreted his boss, who only meant to stress that those who believe a decision is wrong may seek out legitimate ways to overturn it. Eastland points to the example of civil rights groups, which for years submitted briefs to the court urging the reversal of Plessy vs. Ferguson, the 1896 decision upholding segregation. Meese has made clear that he believes issues such as abortion and the rights of the accused remain similarly unsettled...
...know little about how to assist individuals who seek to make and maintain difficult behavioral alterations. This is as true for sexual behavior as it is for the problem of drug addiction, the two principal mechanisms for the transmission of the AIDS virus...
Like the English minister, early Harvard graduates were taught to seek "the preservation of a more perfect polity," Epps said. "These early graduates pursued the highest ideals. Pursuit of high standards of this kind certainly survives in the life of the college today...