Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...nature in favor of culture. "Nature does not satisfy art," one finds in Pousette-Dart's copious notes, cited in the catalog, "but art satisfies nature. Nature is dumb, while art is conscious, articulate, triumphant." This aesthete's idealism sounds unduly high flown. What abstract painting really rivals, in point of organization, the structure of a leaf? But what counts, in the end, is the paintings the idealism serves, and many of these are extraordinarily beautiful...
...best memories go back to the Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme days, when we were beginning to make albums more carefully, that we really liked," Garfunkel says of those post-Silence days. "When we sat back and listened to the playback of that record, it was a high point in my career." The highest came in 1970 with the release of Bridge over Troubled Water, which remains in the top 50 best-selling albums of all time. It was also the last album Simon and Garfunkel would make together...
...many of them feel their schools are so inferior that there is no point in attending...
...alleged crime has sometimes evoked scenes from The Three Faces of Eve. During a one-day pretrial hearing, three of Sarah's 21 personalities were sworn in separately. In each instance, she closed her eyes, paused, then opened them to speak and act as different people. At one point, Sarah was given a glass of water by the judge. Later another personality did not remember having taken the drink...
...contingency plans call for heavy use of air power against Iraqi targets. At some point, however, ground forces would surely be needed to drive Saddam's army out of Kuwait. The U.S. would mount this attack as a lightning strike at night -- a style of warfare the Arab allies are not equipped or trained for. In that moment, American planners in Washington say, they hope the Islamic units can move aside and leave the way clear for a U.S. dash forward...