Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This sense of the surface and its continuity led to the decorative grandeur of his later still lifes. Braque loved "slow" surfaces, porous and mortared, the paint mixed with sand or sawdust. They had a solid, discreet material presence. They sucked the paint out of the brush and made fluent, wristy drawing impossible. Instead, all is deliberate plotting. You do not look through the paint but at it. Braque's determination to keep everything on the surface is the first thing that strikes you in the great still lifes and interiors of the 1940s and '50s, and it lends them...
...though Vellucci is thought to have solid support among Cambridge voters, Truesdell said that the campaign will continue to work hard in both Cambridge and Somerville to emphasize the differences between the two politicians...
...black folks. When it comes to the black experience in this country, Atlanta has been a national city for a very long time -- not just the headquarters of the movement but a center of black education and place where black people amassed capital early on and developed a solid and prosperous middle class. Atlanta didn't make its progress in race relations because of any blissful absence of bigotry -- it has always had its full share of violent racism -- but because an organized and resourceful black community constantly pushed a white leadership that was at least pragmatic...
...rights and antiwar demonstrations, culminating for Boston in the great antibusing struggle in the early 1970s. Michael Dukakis' great cause in this decade was no-fault automobile insurance. He waged a sustained campaign for this reform, which took endless litigation out of the tainted Massachusetts courts. It was a solid, valuable reform, imitated in other states, hard to dramatize, but for that reason amenable to sustained argument of the sort Dukakis is good at. On the other, emotional issues of the time, Dukakis voted "correctly" for a liberal. After all, in Massachusetts even Republican Governor Sargent signed a law challenging...
...that his new album, called Old 8x10 and just now in stores, might dislodge Always from the top of the country charts, where it has perched for almost a year. One million copies of Old 8x10 have already been ordered up by retail outlets, and reorders seem a solid bet. The record's blend of sweet vocals and straightforward sentiment should go down smoothly with Travis' growing number of fans...