Word: thread
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother, looks lost inside her drab overcoat, while Joan Cusack and Adrian Pasder etch small, sad portraits of her well- meaning daughter and son-in-law. The camera focuses patiently on everyday details: a woman reaching into the refrigerator for a glass of milk or trying to thread a sewing machine. Then there is Chayefsky's fabled naturalistic dialogue, which faces up to cliches ("I don't want to be a burden on my children"; "My mother worked like a dog all her life") and finds in them the homely poetry of the struggling class...
...find a common thread," Waxenberg adds, "I think you'll find that a recurrent...
...were flying around in gliders thousands of years ago. And in Atlanta, Gladys Twyman, coordinator of the African-American infusion program for public schools, confirms that the concept of melanin is used both as a teaching tool and as part of the curriculum. That concept, she explains, "is the thread, the core of the project...
...West might be willing to accept a Russian foreign policy based on its own national interests, were it not for the fact that democracy in Russia seems to be hanging by a thread, economic reform has sputtered to a halt, and an enfeebled Russian President seems to slip further into disarray each passing day. No wonder Moscow's neighbors -- and the rest of the world -- are worried about Russia's determination to reassert itself and win back the international respect it considers...
...scale. The collection appears electric, a higgledy-piggledy romp through an era of artistic flux and diversity. The viewer does not find Danish painting surprisingly good or bad; he gleans no insight into the Danish national character; he observes no quintessentially Danish traits--in short, he detects no common thread uniting the canvases beyond the passports of the authors...