Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hungarian American of aristocratic descent. As art historian Roxana Robinson discloses in this romantic but insightful biography, both strains were apparent from the beginning. The child had six siblings, and she could be highly social and convivial. But it took great effort, and she once admitted, "I don't take easily to being with people...
After Stieglitz abandoned his family, he and O'Keeffe took up residence in upstate New York. There, before company, he would rise and lead her up the stairs. "We'd say we were going to have a nap," recalled O'Keeffe. "Then we'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me." Stieglitz shot some 300 of those pictures, and they constitute a statement far beyond the pleasure principle. From every angle, the long melancholy face radiates an unconventional beauty; the nude torso takes on the authority and bulk of sculpture. Before the onlooker, the model is gradually transformed...
...whose population is roughly half white, half black, the vote last week was 2,821 for Douglas Wilder and 2,732 for Marshall Coleman. The mood after election day was strangely subdued. The election was too close. Blacks declined to celebrate. They seemed to fear that a recount might take the victory away...
...school is not the safe place it used to be and that something terrible can happen at any instant." The youngsters, he adds, are "dealing with things that we hoped they'd never have to face, or at least not until they were adults." He concedes that healing "will take months, even years...
Long-term homosexual lovers in New York State, thanks to regulations issued by Governor Mario Cuomo's housing commissioner last week, now have the same right as surviving spouses to take over rent-stabilized apartments upon the death of their partners. In San Francisco voters last Tuesday narrowly rejected -- after vocal opposition from the city's archbishop and other religious leaders -- a proposal entitling gay couples to register their relationships with the county clerk. In Washington and Los Angeles, task forces have been set up to investigate whether denying gay couples the benefits enjoyed by married people is a form...