Word: solemnness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is little sense, or justification, in trying to convince people that the Holocaust and the genocide in Bosnia are identical; they're not. But if Bosnia does not fit into the solemn declaration of "never again," what does...
Socialist victory ends the class struggle and wipes out the old "capitalist" contradiction between beauty and truth. We in 1994 may get a hoot from Ekaterina Zernova's 1937 painting of collective farmers greeting a tank in a country lane with bouquets, or Aleksandr Deineka's solemn image of Lenin (who was childless) on a country spin in an open car with seven children, thus signifying his fatherhood of Russia. Why do we laugh? Because we do not grasp how, in the words of Towards a Theory of Art by an apparatchik named G. Nedoshivin, once "the basis in reality...
Funerals--even celebrities' funerals--don't make for particularly exciting stories. The ceremonies are usually private, and the mourners solemn, not very talkative...
...actors from director Claude Miller (who, with Luc Beraud, adapted Nina Berberova's novel) and from the actors to the receptive viewer. Safonova is a blond vision of grace under all kinds of pressure. But the fresh revelation is Romane Bohringer, daughter of co-star Richard Bohringer. A solemn beguiler, she perfectly embodies pent-up passivity as it longs for the golden chains of an enslaving passion...
...watchword of some of the President's political advisers, such as George Stephanopoulos and outgoing congressional liaison Howard Paster. Programs like Social Security and Medicare have been portrayed for decades as something that American workers had earned; trimming benefits for the affluent would be viewed as breaking a solemn social contract. (In truth, a recent Social Security beneficiary gets back what he paid with interest by age 71; anything after that is free). The Clinton political team believes the most serious problem is not Social Security but the runaway costs of Medicare and Medicaid. As outside political adviser Paul Begala...