Word: summoners
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...bright color-propped up against a dark brown basket that is painted with utter virtuosity, one stroke for every crescent of wicker. To see such passages (others are the lacy scribbles of wet black paint that define the soft body feathers) is to realize why Goya's ability to summon up a single form with a single gesture, fusing the brush mark to the form depicted, was such an inspiration to Edouard Manet half a century later. The stiffness of death is recorded in the bird's splayed legs, thrust out as if in a last convulsion...
Najarian's trial, scheduled to begin later this year, is already shaping up to be a compelling courtroom drama. Prosecutors will seek evidence of duplicity from uni-versity administrators and government officials, while the defense is expected to summon an army of patients to portray a man motivated by nothing but the Hippocratic oath. "I'd go to the ends of the earth for him,'' says Charles Fiske of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, whose 11-month-old daughter Jamie in 1982 became the world's youngest recipient of a successful liver transplant performed by Najarian. Scott Jameson of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who recently...
...grade hook-ups. I felt like such a putz, but there was no way I could instigate my rendezvous with Menu Man, was there? Berry's gut reaction was not propitious, to say the least. "No way. No way. Sorry. "No Menu Man? Crestfallen, I couldn't summon verbal capacity for at least two minutes. Probably embarrassed for me, Berry broke the silence by explaining. "We don't want to expose his true identity." When I told Berry that FM wasn't interested in such deviant behavior, and that the knowledge would be detrimental to my own well-being, Berry...
...risked their lives to supply vital intelligence to the Americans were sometimes left behind. General Smith, however, did call in 16 U.S. Marine guards from the embassy to keep Vietnamese army and air force officers from elbowing civilians aside and filling the planes. On April 25 he had to summon an entire platoon of 43 Marines to hold at bay frantic Vietnamese airmen who had climbed over the fence at night...
...briskly to the middle that his State of the Union speech last week gave Gingrich dozens of moments to stand up and applaud, the new Speaker is running into disputes with his own followers. Just hours before Thursday's final vote on the balanced-budget amendment, Gingrich had to summon a dozen freshmen House members to his office to pull them in line on one of the most important measures of the G.O.P. ``Contract with America.'' The freshmen were refusing to vote for a watered-down version of the budget amendment that did not include one of their favorite aspects...