Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women are still not eligible for the coveted combat-infantryman's badge. The reason: regulations. By definition, the combat-infantryman's award is reserved for infantrymen who have been in combat. Still, the women who took fire in Panama are eligible for medals such as the Bronze or Silver Star. All Panama veterans are also entitled to transfer their unit patches from the left to the right shoulder, signifying combat experience. Bray's champions still applaud her pioneering role. Says Colorado Democrat Patricia Schroeder: "If you may be a soldier, what does it mean? It includes combat duty...
...Tara A. Nayak '92 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Editorial Page Editor: Andrew J. Bates '90 Feature Editor: Terry R. R. Roopnaraine '90 Sports Editors: Gary R. Shenk '92 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Ernest W. Chung '92 Business Editor: Michael S. Harayne '91 Copy Editor: Peter R. Silver...
...student by Thomas Cole, whose slightly stilted allegorical landscapes had made him the most famous American artist of the 1840s. Like Cole, he painted scenes along the Hudson River and in the Catskills, in a manner much indebted to Claude Lorrain: peaceful arcadian vistas with the silver glint of lakes under evening skies. Church's valediction to his dead master, To the Memory of Cole, 1848, with its rose-wreathed cross on a mountainside between two emblems -- the tree stump (death) and the evergreens (posthumous fame) -- carries the Claudean stereotype into America. The billows of pink and white cloud...
Herman Broder (Ron Silver), the passive hedonist in director Paul Mazursky's $ film of Enemies, a Love Story, is sure. There must have been a Holocaust, or Herman would not have hidden from it for most of the war. Now it is 1949, and he lives in New York with, eventually, three loving women: his Polish Gentile wife Yadwiga (Margaret Sophie Stein), whom he married out of gratitude for protecting him in the old country; his passionate mistress Masha (Lena Olin), whom the Holocaust has driven to a volcanic indecision between childbearing and suicide; and his long-lost first wife...