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Intrigued by Tom's project, The Cambridge Arts Council provided funding for him to do his last 10 paintings. The city now approves the posting of his artwork, and as Tom has been endorsed by the powers that be, his tone has tempered. Most importantly, the motto no longer appears...
Unlike most comedians, who are "on" only when performing, Cosby is naturally funny for much of his waking day. In his 20s and 30s, he was notorious for his smoldering anger; he bristled at interviewers and once decked Comedian Tommy Smothers at a Playboy mansion party. But with age and...
If he joins the high court, the sharp-edged axioms of Bork the scholar might be tempered by the tradition of stare decisis (standing by what has been decided), the judicial practice of reaching decisions that accord with earlier rulings. He disagrees, for instance, with the "commerce clause" decisions of...
What you see is a compact-model candidate, 5 ft. 8 in. tall, with a mop of dark brown hair just beginning to gray at the temples, caterpillar-thick eyebrows and an aggressive Grecian nose tempered by a soft, almost shy smile. But in the Democratic presidential race Dukakis is...
While absurdist touches in the ficitionalizedannual report--like discussions of two-hour planetravel and mocking descriptions of the "longunimaginative Bok regime"--tempered the speech'simmediate impact, it has clearly touched a nervein the Harvard community. Bok said he has receivedunprecedented amounts of mail and alumni responsewhich has only recently abated...