Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lump in the mind, given urgency by slashing brushstrokes and depth by strong contrast. He liked Hals' vulgarity and reflected it in his portraits, one of the most spectacular of which is in this show--Salome, 1909, a portrait of a dancer known as Mademoiselle Voclezca. Her long leg, thrust out with strutting sexual arrogance and glinting through the overbrushed black veil, had more oomph than a thousand of the virginal Muses and personifications of Columbia painted by academics like Kenyon...
Fate could not have chosen a more difficult time than the Beanpot to thrust Karmanos into the spot-light. The injury-riddled Crimson proved no match for either first-round opponent Northeastern or consolation game adversary Boston College, falling 4-1 to the former and 6-2 to the latter...
...things strike the heart so jarringly as the wrenching of an individual from his native-born society, his home, only to be thrust into the melting pot (read: salad shooter) of America. In "Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art," therefore, not surprisingly the themes of loss, separation, and alienation dominate overtly. But as each artist lets these general ideas churn on the surface, the deeper psychological effects of such attacks on identity gradually bubble up, too, revealing more tortured, distinct individual sufferings...
...royal scale, as in Richard III, cram the screen with ingenious murders. Everyone says that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd have been a screenwriter. But would he be Joe Eszterhas? Would he have shown one of his characters enjoying fellatio--then gasping in horror as a dagger, thrust upward by an assassin hiding under the bed, suddenly emerges through the victim's chest...
...primary thrust of this Democratic strategy has been to repeatedly imply that Republican attempts to sensibly restructure Medicare, Medicaid and other federal entitlement programs amount to little more than stealing from the poor to give to the rich...