Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point of this trip is to calm the watersof American perception about the future of NATO,"said Paul Bograd, associate director...
After a relatively calm summer, the mood of Haiti is turning sour again. Violent antigovernment protests have erupted over widespread unemployment, human rights abuses and, ominously, the founding of a political party by ) followers of the deposed Duvaliers. Adding to the turmoil, Haitians last week recoiled from a more immediate tragedy: an overcrowded ferry sank on the way to the island of La Gonave, with an estimated 180 passengers lost...
Rutger remained calm. "Hold on. I don't mean to be pushy, but I have very pressing business in Teheran. Why don't we plan a route that we can all agree...
Matisse, though, made no such assumptions. He was not an abstract artist but a magisterial painter of bodies and spaces. The specific did not just "interest" him; it was close to an obsession, for all the apparent generalizations of his style. Even in paintings of calm and predictable subjects, like the girl seated by a vase of flowers in The Black Table, 1919, one sees his hand evoking the most difficult conjunctions of sight and imagination -- in the way the transparent Turkish blouse is rendered by a few luscious strokes of white over the flesh, for instance...
Scanning Matisse's rooms is like reading a distinguished, reticent autobiography, written before the days when authors were expected to spill all the beans. The calm they radiate is best understood not as an expression of complacency but as a ploy against anxiety. Nice enabled Matisse to stabilize things, to remain in the same frame of mind for days on end. "After a half century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there," he wrote to a friend. "Nature -- or rather, my nature -- remains mysterious. Meanwhile I believe I have put a little order in my chaos...