Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...openly, proudly, unashamedly. But as a society, do we not want this most fearful act--killing--to be done fearfully? If it must be done at all--and in the most extreme and pitiable circumstances it will--let it be done with trembling, in shadow, in whispered acknowledgment that some fundamental norm is being violated, even if for the most compassionate of reasons...
...Kaczynski, meanwhile, broke one or two sly smiles during his arraignment in Helena, Montana, but was otherwise docile and impassive. He had taken the cliche about serial killers--he was a quiet boy, never got in any trouble--and raised it to an art form. He had cast no shadow, left no prints, made few friends, right up until the moment he vanished into the woods...
...Scruggs, one of whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand's lawyers, who is helping on the Mississippi Medicaid suit. "This is a very sophisticated business transaction by Bennett LeBow." If LeBow can force a merger between Liggett and R.J.R., then R.J.R. will participate in the settlement, moving out from under the shadow of incessant litigation, boosting its stock price and enabling LeBow to split the company's food and tobacco divisions. Even if this scheme fails, LeBow tells TIME, "it was a good economic deal for us to settle...
Sipping tea in his Broadway dressing room last week, Lane, 40, was subdued and a little weary, his voice only occasionally rising to his patented pitch of whiny sarcasm. (Asked about working in the shadow of original Forum star Zero Mostel, he replies with a tart "Who?") Lane grew up in a working-class Irish-American family in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he regularly starred in the plays at St. Peter's Prep. In New York he started building his theater resume, appearing in flops (the Doug Henning musical Merlin) and a few prestige successes (a revival of Noel...
...when classical landscape--the ideal scene with temples, ruins and mellow boscage, populated by figures out of Ovid's Metamorphoses or Vergil's Georgics--was still very much a part of French art. Its greatest exponents, Nicolas Poussin and Lorrain, were French, and their work still cast a long shadow. But it existed alongside a newer appetite for natural vision, the direct recording of the facts of landscape, whose wellhead was the English artist John Constable...