Word: temperedness
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What she was in fact circling was the work of Italian painter Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964). With monk-like devotion, Morandi spent a lifetime honing the still life, grouping bottles and cups into quiet meditations on solitude and society. Hanssen Pigott had seen his 1972 retrospective in Paris, admiring his...
In the past, Lee has not been shy about singling out those nations (the Philippines has been a favorite target) in which an excess of democracy's messiness - as he might put it - has tempered steady economic progress and the betterment of the life chances of ordinary folk. But the...
Congress devolved into a screaming match two weeks ago over the status of U.S. troops in Iraq. Lawmakers return to the Capitol on Tuesday, passions tempered but not abated, facing a stack of budget bills and a mandate for "restrained government spending," which Bush touted in his Rose Garden comments...
Indeed, a year ago, Schwarzenegger had very little to regret. Initially, he used his celebrity to pass a stem-cell research funding initiative and a major bond issue that tempered rising budget deficits, while working well with a Democratic-controlled legislature to secure passage of a popular gun-control law...
The new “ACME Novelty Library” volume is a departure from what attracted so many readers to “Jimmy Corrigan.” “ACME” contains despicably wonderful losers such as Rusty Brown, a more realistic and thus more disgusting...