Word: thicket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apostrophizing nature in all its ceaseless variety, and that is what Pollock seems to have been doing too. "I want to be nature," he declared, and the paintings attest to that. These tiny incidents pullulating in a large field may evoke the experience of looking into a dense thicket close up, or the wider one of staring at the Milky Way, but in either case Pollock's imagination seems organically bound to the natural world without actually depicting it. The contrast between the great size of the canvases (One is more than 17 ft. across) and the intricacy of their...
...midst of the frenzied ritual is a battalion of college guides offering to lead families through the thicket of come-ons and promises. Among these are venerable tomes such as The Fiske Guide to Colleges and Peterson's Four-Year Colleges, as well as recent entries that include products from TIME and Newsweek, each paired with a test-preparation service--TIME with The Princeton Review and Newsweek with Kaplan. The most watched of these guides is the annual ranking of America's "best" colleges and universities by U.S. News & World Report. The U.S. News formula has evolved over 12 years...
...White House announcement last Friday lends itself to many interpretations, each carrying its own degree of cynicism: Was it a good-faith effort by Clinton to cut through the thicket of circumstantial evidence, Secret Service recollections and secondhand testimony by offering a firsthand account? Or was it a feint to give the appearance of cooperation and compliance that will ensure that Starr gets the blame when the President ultimately refuses to talk...
...considered a radical-fringe by-product of feminist theory. Today it's embedded in multiple Supreme Court decisions (three more are expected before July), thousands of corporate policies and a host of lower-court cases that have spread like kudzu across the legal landscape. The result is a thicket of rulings. Since 1991, juries have returned well over 500 verdicts on sexual harassment--decisions that often contradict one another and send mixed signals about how we should behave anytime we meet a co-worker we'd like to see after five...
Meanwhile, Dustin Kaiser is trying to navigate his way through the death of his best friend, the thicket of rage surrounding him and his own confused thoughts on race. "My cousins and uncles wanted to go there and kill them all," he says. One relative phoned to say he had 2,000 rounds left over from the military. His mom said she wanted to "flatten Flint." Kaiser himself tries to express yet contain his anger, using the only words he has at his reach. "Not all black people are niggers. And there are some white people who are niggers. Those...