Word: cornelia
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...from now. Yet back in 1992 the U.S., along with most other countries, had signed a treaty committing industrial nations to such a rollback by the year 2000--a point not lost on delegates attending a pre-Kyoto planning conference last week in Bonn. "Disappointing and insufficient," is how Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, head of the German delegation, characterized Clinton's proposals. And the European Union issued a statement saying in part, "The U.S. proposal is for an even lower target than that proposed by Japan, which we already considered inadequate to tackle the problem of climate change...
...born and raised in Rotterdam, where his father Leendert de Kooning was a liquor distributor and his mother Cornelia Nobel--reputedly a woman of fearsome toughness--ran a sailors' bar on the waterfront. He studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts in the 1920s. It often used to be said that de Kooning got an extensive training in classical draftsmanship there. This wasn't true. What he wanted to be was a commercial artist, an illustrator--to do the kinds of illustrations he had seen in American magazines...
...produced some extraordinarily intense images--funny, monstrous and laden with anxiety, rendered with a kind of desperate verve. "I find I can paint pretty young girls," he remarked, "yet when it is finished I always find they are not there, only their mothers"--more likely his own mother Cornelia, that coarse dockland sibyl...
...over and over, says Cornelia H. Rinderknecht '00, a new member of the Pitches. "By the end of callbacks you were completely tired and not singing that well...
Lifetime Cambridge resident Cornelia B. Wheeler, who served on the City Council from 1958 through 1970, says she can no longer do her day-to-day shopping and errands in the Square, as she was once accustomed to. "Now for me there's nothing left," she says...