Word: impressionism
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The pounding was relentless. As the latest Clinton Administration nominee sat before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, Senators took their turns delivering the blows. First, South Carolina's nonagenarian Strom Thurmond took up the cudgel, blustering about what he called "a compelling prima facie case that ((Morton Halperin...
This last phenomenon is an intensification of an ongoing story. While Freud was winning cadres of acolytes and legions of notional recruits, he and his ideas regularly attracted sharp attacks, often from influential quarters. As early as 1909, philosopher William James observed in a letter that Freud "made on me...
Actors who have been good all along -- Tuck Milligan as a sharecropper who uses the Civil War to settle some personal scores and later as a roving union organizer, Gregory Itzin as two characters who use the law to pervert justice -- are suddenly much better. Actresses who had not made...
The exchange drew no headlines, probably because it was Perot's personal vulnerability that stole the show. In a TIME/ CNN poll taken after the debate last week, only 18% of those surveyed said Perot won the debate, vs. 47% for Gore. Perot's overall popularity has fallen too. Just...
As the outrage spread, Rollins recanted, issuing a statement that "my remarks left the impression of something that was not true and did not occur." Voters may soon learn which version of Rollins' story is closer to the truth: Whitman promised to release her campaign finance records over the weekend...