Word: thrust
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...High Renaissance and Michelangelo the paragon of sublimity, then Giulio was all licentious facility. So ran the judgment of our Victorian forebears, who could not quite forgive Raphael's best pupil for his indelicacy. An air of brilliant second- rateness still clings to his name. Those who can thrust their way through the crowds in Palazzo Te in Mantua and manage a long look at the enormous Giulio Romano show that has been the city's main event this fall (it closes on Nov. 12) will have the best chance any public has had since the artist died...
...Maya Lin, the process of creating the Civil Rights Memorial will not only culminate with its dedication in Montgomery this Sunday but will almost certainly thrust her, against her basic wish that her work speak for itself, into the public eye once more...
...cross cut into her palm. Atthe time her grandmother had given her the crossshe had tried to be thankful but sincerity hadfaltered; she could only call up an imge of acrucified Jesus, blood streaming from hisforehead, the severed tendons in his hands andfeet. She had shivered and tried to thrust hisimage away from her; but it remained lodged in herthoughts...
Steering issues away from federal courtrooms is what the Justices' conservative thrust seeks to accomplish. "This is a court that is happy to throw social issues back into Congress's lap," says University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard. "It wants legislatures to spell out how laws should apply." The attitude appalls many liberals, who argue that the basic purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect the weak and unpopular from the tyranny of majority rule by legislatures. But the court's deference toward the political branches cheers many conservatives. "That's democracy," insists court commentator Bruce...
Even as the occupiers marched off, Cambodians attacked one another along the western border shared with Thailand. At dawn on Saturday, 5,000 fighters from the non-Communist resistance group linked to former Prime Minister Son Sann launched an offensive that thrust as deep as 30 miles into northwestern Cambodia, claiming to capture several towns along Route 69 in a test of strength against the army of Phnom Penh. As for Viet Nam's soldiers, they left behind more than 50,000 dead and returned home to a nation demoralized by poverty, unemployment, food shortages, corruption and continuing status...