Word: vase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from making their own choices on the economy, the U.S. Senate will be declaring war on our right to self-determination. There is an old story, ironically one often told by Ronald Reagan, about a young girl who goes to her mother and says, "Momma, you know that old vase that you always say has been passed down from generation to generation...
...identified as a Van Gogh. The painting, probably executed in 1886, was picked up at a flea market in France just after World War II, but its purchaser did not recognize the signature. Curators at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum declined to put a value on Still Life (Vase with Flowers); in 1990 Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold for $82.5 million...
Theran, who hasn't seen the film, says a woman she didn't know called her last week and left a message on her answering machine. The message reported that Theran's senior thesis in classics--a study of violence and bloodshed in fifth-century BCE Athenian vase painting--had turned up on the MBTA...
...more certain about what 'really' happened during Lozano's therapy and life than I was when his vexed case was playing itself out on the front pages." I find myself in exactly the same situation, as if I am watching one of those optical illusions that consists of a vase, depending on the Organizational whimsy of one's brain. Stokes continues: "But I am sure of this: One of these books --McNamara's -- is pervaded by a bias that fatally cripples its argument...
...clean up, she tells us of her parents' activities in the Communist party. She says, "my father's life has a label," one for which she is clearly still looking. Later, Kate sits in an elegant chair beside a reading table with a single iris in a crystal vase. She speaks in measured and reserved tones, yet when she remembers becoming involved the theatre in Paris, she says, still enthralled by what she found there, "It was the first passion I'd seen except for religion." Suddenly their parallel searches for autonomy and self-definition leap into view...