Word: kinship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gallery. Perhaps only in America, where the cultural role of depictive drawing was so quashed and ghettoized by a quarter-century of "official" abstraction, could Katz be seen as a draftsman of any special quality. One would not wish to begrudge him his work with absurdly exalted claims of kinship with Degas, Velazquez or, for that matter, Fred Astaire...
There are no speeding-car chases or high-tech weapons, just Middle Ages state- of-the-art horse and armor. Still, in her screen debut, Deborah Leigh Moore felt a definite kinship with the dapper 007 portrayed by her dad Roger Moore. "I fight the Tafurs and the Saracens with sword and dagger, and I joust in tournaments with a lance on horseback," says Deborah, who has just been filming Lionheart on location in Portugal. "I feel like I am playing the feminine side of the sort of thing my father used to do." A generation and a few centuries...
...Titan II on the ground in New Mexico and had "blasted the thing just absolutely apart." The test was research for the President's Star Wars defense against missiles. Hitting a grounded target may have been a breeze, but the potency of the laser also showed the potential kinship in technology between knocking out satellites and destroying missiles...
...letter last week to his colleagues announcing his resignation, Bator wrote, "I am, for better or for worse, a child of the Harvard Law School, and the ties of kinship that bind me to the institution are unbreakable...
...People around the world have the highest moral expectations of Harvard [and feel] a lingering disappointment with the moral kinship with" the apartheid regime, Jackson said...