Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dutch painting is more like a Titian than Rembrandt's Moses Breaking the Tablets (1659), the furious patriarch with a shining face, rearing up from the brown murk to smash the tables of the law. The style of Rembrandt's maturity was so totally his own, even in the way it used the past, that it seems inimitable. But in fact it was widely and constantly imitated, especially by his own assistants, and there begins the problem of attribution with which the Rembrandt Research Project, a team of leading connoisseurs and Rembrandt specialists from Europe and the U.S., has been...
Summer films: sequels, stars -- and maybe a sleeper smash; Marlene Dietrich: an appreciation of mystery undimmed...
...hand because the 7,800-strong police department was slow to respond to many of the initial disturbances. Although Gates had earlier indicated that $1 million had been ! set aside for police overtime, the force was virtually invisible in the early hours of the rioting, allowing many looters to smash storefronts and torch buildings with impunity...
Fredriksson and Gessle burst onstage full of attitude with "Hot-blooded," an-as-yet-unreleased track from Joyride. They kept up the energy by launching immediately into their smash hit, "Dangerous...
...Forster hinted at both the opening of A Room with a View (a young lady in love in Italy) and the end of Howards End (an innocent who is carelessly sacrificed to class prejudice). Charles Sturridge's pretty film version, though, sees these subtle poignancies as placards, something to smash over his characters' empty heads as he sings, "Let's all be beastly to the British." One wants to tell him that Forster is not quite the stuff of expose...