Word: compliant
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...pursuit of moments of transcendent personal pleasure. These he seeks in his nightly sessions in the bathroom, where, according to a strict schedule ("The Wednesday Ear Ritual"), he cleans and maintains a different portion of his anatomy; then he gallops toward the marriage bed for inventive trysts with the compliant Lucrecia...
Zorah has many descendants in the artist's mature work, and it is evident that in Morocco Matisse's basic idea of the artist-model relationship crystallized. He began to envision the studio as a kind of harem, where the static and endlessly compliant figure submitted again and again to the pasha- like gaze of her observer...
While President Bush has avoided the sharp attacks on higher education made famous by the Reagan Administration, college officials nationwide say they are concerned Bush and a compliant Congress may be quietly tagging American colleges with unprecedented levels of regulation...