Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come the mourners: six catalog essayists, rending their garments and mangling their syntax. Their rhetoric is sublime, beyond parody. "Since slavery and oppression under white supremacy are visible subtexts in Basquiat's work," intones one, "he is as close to a Goya as American painting has ever produced." "The paintings are alive and speak for themselves," cries another, "while Jean remains wrapped in the silent purple toga of Immortality." A third, between decorative quotes from Michel Foucault, extols Basquiat's "punishing regime of self-abuse" as part of "the disciplines imposed by the principle of inverse asceticism to which...
...confidently forecast that his economic elixir of tax cuts and defense hikes would miraculously produce "a balanced budget by 1983, if not earlier." At least in 1988 Ann Compton of ABC deserved credit for pressing George Bush: "Isn't the phrase 'no new taxes' misleading the voters?" With mangled syntax, Bush responded lamely, "No because that's -- that -- I'm pledged to that...
Nagy points to the study of enjambement as an example of Higbie's ability. Enjambement occurs when the syntax from one line or verse of poetry spills over to the next...
Bush looked relieved at the chance to flee Washington last week for swings into Texas and California. His speeches, forcefully delivered and with less of the mangled syntax to which Bush is prone, were generally well received. Yet bad news stuck to Bush like a cheap summer suit. In Waxahachie, Texas, he lobbied for reinstatement of the $8.2 billion superconducting-supercollider research project, which would create more than 7,000 jobs nationwide. By an awkward coincidence, however, General Dynamics had one day earlier announced that it would lay off 5,800 workers from its F-16 fighter plant in nearby...
Throughout, Hughes adroitly analyzes the architectural syntax of the city by way of its ideological underpinnings. What we discover is that, more often than not, the Catalan drive for self-definition has been projected and voiced through the urban landscape of Barcelona itself...