Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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centerless, devoid of any vision of nature or mastery of hand: at best a mere cultural reflection, at worst...
...work of Eric Fischl, 43, has a quite different tone. Fischl's subject is what has been called the crisis of American identity, the failure of the American dream. From this he is assembling a wholly distinctive vision of the white middle-class social fabric, relentlessly ironic and, if not affectionate, then certainly fixated. It is packed with family tension, sexual farce and erotic misery...
Others are not so sure. Ronald K. Siegel, a psychopharmacologist at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, believes that reactions to MDMA are unpredictable , and not nearly so glowing as some therapists make out. Involuntary teeth clenching, biting of the inside of the cheek, increased sweating, blurred vision and fluctuations in blood pressure have occurred during clinical sessions, he points out. Says Siegel: "People are trying too hard to make this drug into the one that LSD was not -- a drug that is safe and effective and can be freely used and dispensed. MDMA...
...connected to the third secret of the Madonna of Fatima." Agca was referring to three messages the Virgin Mary is said to have given to children in the Portuguese town of Fatima in a series of apparitions beginning on May 13, 1917. Two of the messages deal with a vision of hell and a call to save Russia for Christianity; the third remains a secret known to the Pope and possibly some other church officials...
...title role, Richard Thomas makes the transformation from naive youth to tortured victim to avenging superhero with startling eclat. Roscoe Lee Browne, Patti LuPone, Michael O'Keefe and Zakes Mokae all have riveting individual moments, yet seem completely in step with Sellars' overall vision. In one swoop, Sellars has brought a fresh burst of energy to America's long- running quest for a true national theater. And that is what being a wunderkind is all about...