Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sweetness of Touch. Light, considered as a sign of divine immanence, fascinated Ensor. It gives a special tension to his skeleton pieces, mask paintings and the street scenes of his best years, from about 1885 to 1900: glitter and death, dark subjects and brisk high tones. The brutally emphatic imagery was created with a disconcerting sweetness of touch. Skeleton Painter in His Atelier, 1896, typifies this: the surface is almost as pretty as a Bonnard (though not nearly so well painted), and the very fact that Ensor was not trying to use illusionist tricks to convince viewers of the skeleton...
...MacLaine shows no sign of ever planning to leave the business. Though she vocally supported George McGovern for President in 1972 and last January performed at Jimmy Carter's Inaugural, Shirley has pushed politics into the wings. She is considering a return trip to China once her book is finished, and thinks a Broadway musical would also be nice, especially if she could work on a New York movie at the same time. But MacLaine will keep on dancing, she insists, "as long as my legs don't give out and the people keep coming. My permanent existence...
Brock is not irrevocably lost. His shrewd shuttle diplomacy in hell puts him in a unique position to demand a reward. To reveal what that is would spoil the reader's fun, but the prize under lines the irony of the sign that greeted him in the Second Circle: "Hell is where you are free to be yourself, and nothing but yourself." Mayo Mohs
...kids can walk out the door," Renee Weinrauch, educational director says, explaining that youths assigned to Hastings House are under no legal obligation to stay. The 11 boys--all of whom are in their teens--sign a contract that is renewed from week to week. If they don't live up to the agreements of their contract--whether that be abstention from stealing cars, playing hooky or vandalism--then they are not allowed to go out at night...
That juvenile crime is down is an encouraging sign for this new approach, as is the recognition of the need for some new secured facilities for youth. From the hyperactive, almost slap-dash days of Jerry Miller, Massachusetts has sat back, reevaluated its child welfare program, and begun to pick up the pieces...