Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...part, these limits were due to the poverty of Ryder's training as a draftsman of the human figure. Ryder could make dramatic, even magical conjunctions of shape. His color, judging from what is left of it, was rich. But he drew feebly. New York in the early 1870s could not give an art student much more than a remote echo of beaux arts disciplines in that department. The convention is to treat this as Ryder's good luck: it enabled his native, visionary qualities to prosper, unsullied by academic convention...
...collaborators and informants in Vietnam tell me that even the rulers in Hanoi realize they must make dramatic reforms soon. They know that the political and economic discontent is serious, even within the armed forces, and also inside the party, where there is growing opposition to the Old Guard...
...Communist Party in Vietnam is like a big tree. But the roots are loose, and the trunk is hollow. There are people within the party who realize that the challenge is not how to maintain the tree, but how to make it fall in a way that will cause the least damage...
This broadside from Howe became the catalyst for the most serious challenge to Thatcher's leadership in her 11 years as Prime Minister. Michael Heseltine, a former Minister of Defense who stalked out of the Cabinet in 1986 and had been circling Fort Thatcher ever since, finally decided to make his move. He said Howe's resignation revealed a split in the party that could not be resolved without a fight...
...terms before they appear in court, Trump and his bondholders hope to limit to a few weeks the time the Taj spends in Chapter 11. But while Trump seems to have put out one fire, he will soon be busy with others. Over the next several weeks, he must make two more multimillion-dollar interest payments -- for Atlantic City's Trump Castle and Manhattan's Plaza Hotel...