Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...show is rich in souvenirs and epigrams of the modernist imagination, Sérusier's little Talisman of 1888, for instance, with its plain flat patches of color that demonstrated so vividly to Denis and Bonnard that art should not be mere representation, but rather "a transposition, a caricature, the passionate equivalent of an experienced sensation"; or the 1890 self-portrait by Edouard Vuillard, done in brilliant polemical slabs of nonnaturalist color. But it is to the great paintings at the center of the exhibition that one returns, those hinges upon which art swung from the 19th century into the 20th...
...modern Mormon matron" who, while not having been excommunicated or agreeing with Mrs. Johnson about the ERA, has felt the heavy hand, with which church leaders control the members. I do not think of the Mormon leadership as a particularly savage group. I would rather classify their attitude as plain run-of-the-mill misogyny...
...total. But he may have taught the U.S. a useful?even vital ?lesson for the 1980s. He has shown that the challenges to the West are certain to get more and more complex, and that the U.S. will ignore this fact at its peril. He has made it plain that every effort must be made to avoid the rise of other Khomeinis. Even if he should hold power only briefly, the Ayatullah is a figure of historic importance. Not only was 1979 his year; the forces of disintegration that he let loose in one country could threaten many others...