Word: mannerize
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...later Kenwood Self-Portrait (circa 1665), with its sketchy construction (arcs in the background, a near Cubist flurry of angular brush marks to indicate palette and brushes), as being a long way from the Italian Renaissance, but in fact they are grounded in it and in Titian's late manner...
...what young painter in his right mind would not want to be with Rembrandt? He was so fashionable that, as one of his more classical-minded contemporaries sourly complained, "artists were forced (if they wanted to have their work accepted) to accustom themselves to his manner of painting: even though they themselves might have a far more commendable manner." Small planets in the gravitational field of an immense talent, some would eventually break out of orbit to make independent careers for themselves, but all of them -- while they were with Rembrandt -- had to work...
Lujan's direct, cut-to-the-chase manner has in some instances served him and his department well. Among the bright spots of his administration have been his efforts to upgrade schools for Native Americans, to get a higher return for the government from private concessions operating in federal parks, to protect historical battlefields and to improve Interior's record on minority hiring. He halted the privilege enjoyed by some in Congress and the Executive Branch of using national-park cottages and lodges, off limits to the public, for personal vacations...
...along with its success has come a remarkable degree of opposition. A loose network of "exit counselors" seeks to pressure church members into quitting. Universities that welcome all manner of oddball groups on campus actively seek to curb these evangelists. Critics mail out booklets and tapes denouncing them. Some defectors -- who number half the converts since 1979 -- charge that the church has done them psychological or spiritual harm. Many are crying "cult," although dropout Rick Bauer thinks "authoritarian sect" is a better label...
...says that you held the knife in a threatening manner...