Word: mystically
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ROMANTIC VISION OF CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE U.S.S.R., the Art Institute of Chicago. The flood of treasures from Russian collections continues, here with a trove of haunting, otherworldly works by the great German mystic Friedrich (1774-1840), loaned by the Hermitage and Pushkin museums. Through...
...methods have earned her a working relationship with Gorbachev, but not with Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's fiery President. While he represents the mystic Lithuanian dreams, she concentrates on practicalities. The two have disagreed strongly about how to deal with Moscow, and many emotional Lithuanians share with Landsbergis his dismay at her conciliatory moves. Prunskiene dismisses the criticism as irrelevant: "As a leader I do not have to follow what I believe is the wrong way just to show unity...
Bush is doubly vulnerable to conservative disgruntlement. The Congressmen and pundits who are so unhappy now were never tied to him by the mystic chords of memory, as they were to Reagan, though they were willing to be pleasantly surprised. Now they have been unpleasantly confirmed in all their old doubts. This matters to Bush because they, not George Mitchell or Tom Foley, form the core of his support...
...Moscow think tank offers a lesson in the application of pressure. "To maintain one's influence in a situation," he says, "it is often necessary -- in fact it is usually necessary -- to both give and withhold. Especially in Latin America, where every leader thinks he is some sort of mystic God, diplomacy requires dealing as one deals with children. If you say no all the time, you are ignored, even if, as a parent, you hold all the theoretical power. The helicopters signaled that we were still on the Sandinistas' side. They already believed we weren't. If that impression...
...appalling truth is out, although a tantalizing portion of it vanished forever when Charles Stuart jumped to his death into the icy waters of the Mystic River. A stunned city is left to wonder which is worse: the ease with which it embraced Stuart's lie that a black mugger murdered his wife for a bit of jewelry, or the knowledge that evil can wear an expensive suit, hold a respectable job, own a house in a pleasant suburb...