Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...murder mystery that takes the pair from high Hollywood (the first Academy Awards ceremony) to low (a house of ill fame where the girls impersonate movie stars). Edwards demonstrates a fondness for period dress, decor and autos, but he fails to develop an attitude, satirical or otherwise, toward his subject. And the obsessive twisting of his plot imposes a sinking weight of expository words on the picture...
...subcommittee of the IOP's Student Advisory Committee last Thursday voted to accept study-group proposals mainly from Boston-area experts,taking into account subject diversity and studentinterest, said Nancy F. Dietz, the student programcoordinator...
...prisoners' violent upbringings show up in unexpected ways, tutors say. "I asked this guy for a sample sentence--subject, object, verb--and [he] wrote, 'Johnny stabbed the police officer,'" Darby says...
Like many historic mistakes, Executive Order 9066 won approval almost offhandedly. On Feb. 11, 1942, preoccupied by a two-front war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided not to bother with a meeting on the subject and simply said yes in a phone call to his Secretary of War, adding the bland advice, "Be as reasonable as you can." Signed a week later, the order led to the roundup and internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans for the duration of World War II, an action that Hawaii Senator Spark Matsunaga calls the "one great blot on the Constitution." Last week...
...something of the richness of Jasper Johns' encaustic or Richard Serra's paintstick drawings. Sultan is highly sensitive to the play of black and white. In drawings like Black Tulip May 23, 1983, he gives his shapes an admirable, embodied decisiveness: you sense that they have all been the subject of hard aesthetic argument. The tulip stems swoon like Margot Fonteyn's neck; the leaves fairly crackle with graphic energy. At times in the configuration of one of Sultan's flowers, one sees a sly reference to Matisse's odalisques...