Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showed up last week in a bath of warm rhetoric toward Gorbachev -- quite a turnabout from presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater's denunciation of the Soviet leader two weeks ago as a "drugstore cowboy" on arms control, long on talk and short on action. In an interview last week with European journalists, Bush insisted that his attitude toward Gorbachev's initiatives was "not begrudging...
...knowledge that people were prepared to die for democracy. Construction workers and medical volunteers erected a makeshift clinic, using scaffolding and canvas, as doctors and nurses ministered to the hunger strikers, some of whom had sworn off water as well as food and were wilting rapidly in the warm weather. The strikers were given glucose solutions, intravenously or orally. When the weather turned foul on Wednesday night, they were moved inside buses that had been brought to Tiananmen Square by the Chinese Red Cross...
...confusion between the two that most often prompts criticism of the force. Whether blamed for not protecting students in confrontations with Cambridge police, or condemned for forcing homeless persons off warm ventilation grates, the police play a role most students greet with ambivalence--or worse...
Cheap rent, warm sun and clean air are just some of Quartzsite's attractions. Winter residents also enjoy an easy and active social life: evening bonfires, potluck dinners, dirt biking, rock hounding, panning for gold (and finding it), plus more dances than you'd find in a teenager's calendar. In February Quartzsite plays host to the largest gem and mineral exhibition in the country. And there's an abundance of flea markets, where a person can buy, among other things, crocheted cowboy hats, petrified dinosaur manure, pet ID tags, Whitt's "hillbilly" billfold and racoon-penis earrings...
Reni's image of the young Baptist, modeled to the nth degree of sensitivity, warm against the cold blues and dark greens of the framing landscape, seems about to speak; and to look at the landscape background is to realize what English artists a century later, particularly Gainsborough, would gain from Reni. He had an inspired sense of the mechanics of composition, as Nessus and Dejanira proves: an airy ballet on the theme of rape, in which every billow and facet of the drapery seems to operate as form...