Word: impressionism
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Blanc claims that the purpose of attending a university is "to learn to hone and defend our opinions." We were under the impression that our education was an instrument to help us change the world and change does not always come through debate. In the past, people have been murdered...
This, at least, is the impression a viewer gets after seeing the trailers--the two-minute previews--for this summer's major-studio films. For months these promos have clogged theaters, an early goad to the moviegoers' want-see. When a trailer works, it can give its film the hint...
Despite its protestations, Mitsubishi may have already begun to take some measures to clean up its act. A plantwide sensitivity-training program was belatedly established last year. And while managerial jobs have not been affected, the company claims it has fired 10 workers--four this year--for incidents of sexual...
Unfortunately, the book is studded with the author's attempts to make the things she is describing even more touching, a forcing of emotion that can be frankly embarrassing. Her recollection of Samuel Gogol's story, for example, is preceded by this observation: "Fifty years later, birds still do not...
"My first impression from [Myerson and Shealy] was that they did not know it existed until they found it," Pratt added.