Word: spats
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...Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the group that has tenaciously been protesting those disappearances for six years, launched a special 24-hour march of resistance. As onlookers applauded, 5,000 protesters marched amid a sea of waving banners, crying, "We want them back!" Even when youths insulted and spat on police, the officials did not strike back. But on the following day the three-man military junta exacted its revenge: a 15-point Law of National Pacification, in which the military sought to erase forever the embarrassing memory of its actions...
...bravura passages are in the details: how the generalized bagginess of a trouser leg, for instance, rendered in flat, thin paint and firmed up with swift daubs of darker tone in the folds, contrasts with the thick, creamy white directional brush strokes that model the curve of a spat. The ceaseless, intelligent play of flat and round, thick and thin, "slow" and "fast" passages of paint is what gives Manet's surface its probing liveliness. There is nothing "miraculous" about it, but it was not the result of a mechanically acquired technique either. It is there because...
...fact, however, a 1979 FBI report stated that 40% of women killed were murdered by their partners, and 10% of men by theirs. (Many of the women acted in self-defense.) When it comes to squabbling around the house, women give as good as they get. But a domestic spat is not battering, which involves a pattern of escalating abuse in a situation from which the victim feels she cannot escape. Because they are usually physically stronger than their wives, men are less likely to be battered; for reasons of pride, they are also far less likely to report...
...past, Bostonians probably would not have blinked at such favoritism. Not in these tight-space times. Some ticket-weary citizens reportedly spat on Richards and deluged him with irate letters. Lameduck Mayor Kevin White was lambasted when he declared that he saw nothing wrong with providing "preferential treatment" to powerful political figures who help Boston. Said White: "I do favors if I think it's in the best interests of the city." Said Tony Cennamo, a WBUR-FM radio station announcer: "When I read about the ticket-fixing, I got damned crazy, almost violent. I wanted...
...Greece but a bachelor in America. During passages in which he debates inconclusively the nature of justice, Gage admits his own base impulses: he smuggled a gun into Greece in order to murder the now aged "judge" who had condemned his mother. At the last moment, having spat in the man's face, Gage renounced the crime because it would put his gratification ahead of his duty to his children, his living family. In a final sentence that is prefigured from the book's beginning, as in a classical Greek tragedy, Gage explains: "Summoning the hate necessary...