Word: windowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is a lesson to be learned from this announcement, it is that traditions can change and grow just as institutions do. The Bunting Institute is ensuring its survival by admitting men, and by opening its doors it is opening a window to what the future of Harvard-Radcliffe could look like...
...polite window dressing? No, says Carney: The Republicans came to the session with ?a level of honesty because they have only a slim majority in the new Congress.? GOP leaders know they are in no position to take bold steps and that they cannot afford to get into a major confrontation with the President or his party at this time. For the Democrats at the session, the major objective was to take measure of new House Speaker Dennis Hastert. By all accounts, says Carney, the impression he made was one of ?graciousness and non-confrontation.? Both sides seemed to come...
...something intense about the discreet effort that has gone into it--analysis raised to poetry. It demands close looking--and gets it, from the little dog in the foreground with its back to us, transfixed by the sight. And things are complicated a little further by a second window, on the right, that lights up the mother and child and leaves a brilliant splash of gold on the brass bed warmer hanging above the mother's head, like a displaced halo...
...matter of fact, the son of a master bricklayer--but that place may not have been in a real structure. The show contains two paintings of the "same" scene, a courtyard in Delft, from 1658, featuring a brick archway with an inscribed tablet and a round window above it, and a little arbor to the right. Except that in the second version the arbor isn't an arbor but a shed; and the slice of street seen through the archway is different; and the pattern of paving on the ground is different too. It's like a child's puzzle...
...local radio station asks Ventura at the last minute to sub for its regular host. Luckily, he has a window. "You still have to worry about swearing," he says...