Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rockwell's democratic spirit can't blind you to the fact that so many of his pictures really are the insipid jokes and consoling fictions they were always said to be. The fact that sentimentality in painting has a pedigree reaching back to Rubens doesn't make Rockwell's puppy dogs any more digestible now. There are parts of this show that could make you hate Santa Claus...
...turned out, in his own politics Rockwell was a liberal, which could be guessed from the understated plea for tolerance that so many of his pictures make. In the 1960s, when he left the Post for Look magazine, he turned to producing plainer public statements like The Problem We All Live With, a bare rectangle in which a black girl is chaperoned by federal Marshals as she tries to integrate a Southern school. Public rhetoric was never Rockwell's strength. But he brings such a hard-lit, neoclassical calm to this moment that the remnants of a tomato smashed against...
...some cases, insurance will pick up the tab, and Remicade, at least, qualifies for Medicare reimbursement. But coverage probably won't be universal. Some firms could make doctors prescribe cheaper, though more problematic, alternatives. For some patients, the pain of arthritis will be compounded by the pain of knowing there's help just beyond their reach...
...wife in 1977, has an adopted son. Of all Stein's desires, perhaps the strangest is his Kennedyesque hope that the 12-year-old will be elected to Congress when he grows up. So Stein continues to sweat over the $5,000 each night, hoping to stockpile enough to make his son independently wealthy and complete the surreal version of the American Dream that has shaped Ben Stein's life...
...shortcomings. I am tired of hearing about those stereotypical mistakes. What is adolescence about, anyway? We don't need someone telling us we're going about growing up all wrong. The youth of today need to get support from adult members of society so that we can continue to make this world a place that believes in tolerance and accepts people who learn from their mistakes. LINDSAY GLASSCOCK, AGE 16 Fort Collins, Colo...