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Word: slanting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never understood that question. Is it referring to my views on life, to the slant with which I approach the world? Or is it referring purely to where I was born, where I grew...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Where I'm Coming From OK, AR, IA, MA... | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

...America to reporters aboard his plane. He took the occasion to reiterate one of his primary preoccupations: the prevalence of violence around the world, including the U.S. Said he: "To have this phenomenon in the United States, the most progressive country in the world!" He blamed it on the slant of the media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Paul Superstar | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...melted away. This doesn't mean that his landscapes are more "expressive," only that they radiate a greater sense of freedom. "The presence in a painting," he once wrote, "is like the presence a child feels and recognizes in things and the way they relate, like a doorknob, the slant of a roof . . . Art does not succeed by compelling you to like it, but by making you feel this presence in it. . . ((which)) can be impersonal." There is enough of this "presence" in Porter's work to place it among the finest landscape painting ever done by an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fairfield Porter: Yankee Against the Grain | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...department born of activism, one which had for years a pronounced political slant and voice through its chair, Afro-American Studies is under unique pressures to manifest an outlook, to students and colleagues...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, Rebecca M. Wand, and Anna D. Wilde, S | Title: Afro-Am Studies Grows Under New Leadership | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

There is some sentimentality in this, but it is lightly, genially stated. And it is balanced with a sharp comic shrewdness. Reitman has succeeded in recruiting all sorts of prominent people -- ranging from sitting Senators to the McLaughlin Group to Oliver Stone, contributing a paranoid slant on good- heartedness -- to satirize their own and, more important, the media's self- importance. They impart to Dave just the topical edge it requires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beltway Follies | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

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