Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forget about social history. Though any post-Marxist pedant can wring out the usual insights about patriarchy and property in 17th century Dutch bourgeois life, none of them touch on the peculiar magic of Vermeer's images. Like Piero della Francesca, Vermeer was a highly inexpressive artist. He didn't even paint a self-portrait, as far as anyone knows. You come out of the exhibit knowing almost as little about Vermeer the man as when you went in. Biography, faint: Lived in Delft, a backwater. Son of a silkworker. A Papist in a Calvinist town. Quite successful nonetheless. Married...
...possibly, Bosnia. Davis, a public relations executive who would perform similar duties for the Army, said today that she has been very ill for three months. She added that while she cannot serve in uniform at this time, she would like to help soldiers in Bosnia keep in touch with their families. The Pentagon has an email connection on the Internet, for those who would like to send holiday greetings to the troops...
Gingrich refused to get used to it, and instead spent 10 full years methodically recruiting and training his own private army. "He was willing to go in and help these candidates that other people wouldn't touch," says conservative guru Paul Weyrich. "When they came here, who was it that they knew? Gingrich was their leader." Once he became Speaker, they supported all the House restructuring he proposed, not least because it gave them a more central role than any generation of congressional arrivistes in modern history...
...handling of polished bronze. No earlier sculpture had made such a feature of polish. Bronze was patinated--treated with chemicals to give it a warmly dark surface. This obscurity, folding deep shadows into what was already dark, was part of its accepted expressive power. It conveyed density, invited touch...
...poet and former seaman Michael Levinson from Buffalo, New York, who proposes a jobs program to build 10,000 clipper ships, and Caroline Killeen of Flagstaff, Arizona, the self-described "Hemp Lady" and ex-nun who advocates legalizing marijuana as a way of enabling Americans to get back in touch with nature. For $2 she'll sell you a bumper sticker that reads LET CLINTON INHALE...