Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Now what'll you give old Lester for this genuine Pickrick fly swatter?" shouted Lester Maddox, 62. This remnant from the Pickrick, the ex-Georgia Governor's once racist, now defunct Atlanta restaurant, was part of the Maddox memorabilia sold at auction last week. Also on the block...
James Michener's virtue is a powerful sense of place and the ability to convey great sweeps of time. His weakness is an insistence on covering murals with so much background and foreground that he has learned only a few ways of doing faces. One expression represents nobility, and...
"Dad had this Southern talent of commanding attention in any room with his storytelling; Mom would react to him in an intense way. Though not social or gregarious, they were like a vaudeville team at home, and Warren and I would sit there and watch. It made both of us...
According to one of the author's informants, a psychologist named Michael Fox, about 80% of all human communication consists of nonverbal gestures. Dogs are ever watchful of their master's changing stance and expression, a genetic inheritance from their wolf past when subtle shifts in packmates'...
Their anger is fueled daily by the presence of 2,200 Israeli occupation troops. Every Palestinian has some horror story to tell about Jewish oppression: a relative deported without legal proceedings, a family home destroyed, beatings and arrests, degradations and insults, racism and arrogance. In a report on human rights...