Word: solids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work embodies the paradox of what the Spanish Counter-Reformation expected in church painting: that extreme spirituality lay in extreme realism. "Sometimes you might find a good painting lacking beauty and delicacy," Pacheco wrote in his Art of Painting. "If it possesses, however, force . . . and seems round like a solid object and lifelike and deceives the eye as if it were coming out of the picture frame," the lack of those qualities was forgiven. The real image made Christ or a saint real, ready to speak to you from the wall...
...freshmen feel more comfortable playing matches, I expect them to make solid contributions to the team," Fish said of Kumar's triumph...
...something about Edwin," Patti said, speaking of the incumbent Governor. "We were all tired of the jokes." Edwards' flamboyance, his taste for shooting craps and kissing pretty women, are legend. "There is such a thing as too much flair," Patti went on. "Anyway, Billy Tauzin is a solid family...
Many Floridians are planning to do just that. Thousands have signed up for firearms courses, a requirement for the concealed-weapons permit, and business is brisk at shooting ranges around the state. At the Tamiami Range and Gun Shops in Miami, classes have been booked solid since early June. "I'm just afraid of all the wackos out there," says Eliseo Santana, 29, a computer repairman who is applying for the permit. Adds August Zittel, a retiree from St. Petersburg: "I don't want to become another statistic...
...died elsewhere. Similar and even wilder versions of the disaster's toll have previously circulated in India. But compensation claims for deaths caused by the accident remain well below 3,000. Indian officials last week disputed Kurzman's finding. Said one: "The figure we announced was based on solid investigations, and cannot be wrong...