Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...canon, and rightly so. The "legal establishment" which ridicules Meese so thoroughly today was a tiny minority at one time, and no doubt will one day be so again. It is simply not true to say that Meese has committed some sort of outrageous heresy against fundamental, cast-in-stone legal precepts. Meese, like any active and important leader in American legal matters, simply has a strong point of view (one incidentally shared by many thousands of lawyers, politicians and judges). That he happens to hold a profoundly conservative bias apparently miffs some Harvard law professors and Kennedy School students...
...totalitarianism. Brodsky elaborates the point in "A Guide to a Renamed City" by contrasting two monuments. On one side of the Neva stands the "Bronze Horseman," the equestrian statue of Peter the Great. Across the river is the figure of Lenin on top of an armored car carved of stone...
...some early American modernism ("Colonial Cubism," in Stuart Davis' mordant phrase). Her main stylistic affinities are less with other American or European painting than with photography: the work of Stieglitz, but especially of her friends Paul Strand and Edward Weston, obsessed with sharp focus, clear emblematic shapes of stone, bone and weathered root, the far telescoped into the near. Her America was a more stripped, fundamental and varied place than anything one can find in "regional" painting of the '30s. She made indelible images of the city, such as her views of and from the Shelton Hotel in New York...
...nearly two hours, the procession approached the blue-domed Haj Mazuz al Masri mosque, which had been built by the slain mayor's uncle. There, the body was removed from its coffin, passed overhead from hand to hand into the courtyard of the mosque, and buried in a stone tomb covered with a marble slab...
...longer is the Soviet approach to the outside world epitomized by Andrei Gromyko, the man who made iron pants, stone walls and, of course, nyet so much a part of the vocabulary of diplomacy. Under Gromyko, Soviet foreign policy was much like WrestleMania's archvillain Nikolai Volkoff, whose technique consists of grappling his opponent to the mat and sitting on him. With Gromyko kicked upstairs to the largely ceremonial post of President and Gorbachev's protege Eduard Shevardnadze in charge of the Foreign Ministry, Soviet diplomacy now resembles Ivan Drago, the sleek and powerful Soviet boxer portrayed in the movie...