Word: impressionism
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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In a functional, no-frills era, Haas boldly mixes styles and allusions, paying tribute to master builders and reviving the richness and variety of earlier ages. Every Haas mural has the flair and comic touch of the Baroque -- art striving for the grand impression. "The real talent is to know...
Those kinds of facilities, in addition to the school's more august holdings (it has a Gutenberg Bible and a garden donated by the King of Siam), help give Eton more the air of a university than a high school. That impression is intensified by the precocious self-possession of...
The Soviet attitude is even more unsure. U.S. and Soviet officials canceled a Bush-Gorbachev press conference that they had scheduled in Paris, obviously because the two Presidents, dining together, had failed to agree on a use-of- force resolution. Both sides then scrambled to deny any impression of a...
Administration officials insist that any impression of confusion or vacillation is unfair. Since the crisis began in early August, the President has been consistent about his bottom line. Says one White House official: "We thought our message was simple enough, that we'd like Saddam to withdraw peacefully but that...
You want to like him. There is something modern and hopeful about Salinas that separates him from traditional Mexican politicians. His office gives a carefully cultivated impression of efficiency. He expects -- and gets -- results. Decisions come from the top with the expectation that they will be implemented, not debated.