Word: lines
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...second line was composed of Simonds, Landry and junior Jen Minkus, who earned a playmaker in Saturday...
...WHEN a line from Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf appeared in the Dartmouth Review's masthead on Yom Kippur, conservatives across the country picked sides. Some right-wingers, including William F. Buckley, rallied to the paper's defense, calling the incident a fake and the Dartmouth equivalent of the Tawana Brawley case. Others argued that the Review's patently offensive tactics discredited a more thoughtful conservative voice...
What's next for Hollywood's hottest leading man? After the Matsushita deal, Ovitz may be in line to succeed Lew Wasserman as head of MCA. Yet such a move could limit his power, which now encompasses the entire movie business. And he is not yet finished changing the face of Hollywood...
...Zeuxis and Parrhasius vied, according to legend, to see who could produce the most realistic painting. Zeuxis illustrated grapes so lifelike that birds swooped down and tried to eat them. Parrhasius outdid him, however, by fashioning a curtain that Zeuxis, mistaking for fabric, attempted to pull open. A long line of artists have since striven to equal Parrhasius' success by bestowing an illusory third dimension to flat, featureless walls and ceilings. Known as trompe l'oeil (fool the eye), the style reached its prime in the Renaissance and during the Baroque period, when painters embellished churches and palaces with imaginary...
...breeches of rifles?) to the conceptual (could U.S. troops bypass the dug-in Iraqi forces in Kuwait with a flanking attack?). They include questions of psychology: Is the Iraqi army battle hardened from eight years of war against Iran, or battle weary? Would the troops on the front line, many of whom are thought to be ill-trained draftees who know they are cannon fodder, fight hard or give up quickly? For that matter, how battle ready are American soldiers, hardly any of whom below the rank of colonel have ever been in combat...