Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush's transition will also be different, according to Brauer, because as the only sitting vice president to be promoted since Martin Van Buren in 1836, he must build his own image after being in the shadow of a popular president for eight years...
...contains an extraordinary range of nuances both in color and in texture: tremulous depths of pinkish-gray held within the sallow planes of a face, innumerable gradations of Venetian red and salmon pink in the body of a nude, rescued from mere allusiveness by the vehement drawing of shadow that gives Kossoff's work its tonal framework. Its solidity is relieved, almost involuntarily, by the whipping of skeins of pigment fallen directly from the brush, which work as a form of counterdrawing, lifting the thick surfaces from inertia...
...myth had emerged from the collective unconscious, taken the form of a slavering shadow and made a murderous foray against the ordinary order of things. People simply did not want to believe it. The police, the public, the press kept trying to convert resonant mystery into conventional tabloid sordidness. The Chamberlains were devout Seventh-Day Adventists, and, since most people know little about that faith, wild rumors that it encouraged ritual murder soon surfaced. Worse, Lindy refused to play the archetypal role that this drama called for. She would not grieve hysterically for the reporters. Throughout her ordeal...
Meanwhile, officials in Thompson's campaign said that, despite any problems there might have been at the polls, Thompson's large margin of victory--8485 to 5181--established beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is the community's favorite...
...interest among lawyers. Our legal system is built on the assumption that justice should be impartially meted out and, thus, blind. But to insist that a case could be discussed and tried without the prosecutors knowing the identity the defendant is unfair. How are they supposed to fight a shadow...