Word: quickness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...made some quick calculations. Game starts 7:30. Three hours for the game, 20 minutes for interviews, 20 minutes to touch up my story, five minutes to send it. No problem...
...play has been called compassionate by some, but it is really a cold-blooded indictment of gender relationships and the modern world. Rabe wrote the play largely in short takes, and the quick scenes fail to make the characters any more accessible or sympathetic...
...seems that as Matisse's experience of Islamic art deepened, he tried to find equivalents for it, not only in his shapes but also in the substance of his paint. He worked increasingly in vaporous, quick washes thinned to watercolor transparency -- stains of extraordinary beauty that establish a constant field of light against which the passages of denser paint and linear drawing create, by subtle inflection, the illusion of solidity. These are, in part, Matisse's response to the textiles and ceramics he observed, in which - the color was dyed or glazed rather than opaquely painted...
...claim English as their mother -- or at least stepmother -- tongue. An Australian will invite you to a hotel, and you may be shocked if you don't know that it's what you think of as a bar. An Indian will "prepone" a meeting, and only if you're quick enough to calculate "postpone" in reverse have you any chance of showing up on time. Above all, as English has become a kind of prized commodity -- and a status symbol -- in many corners of the world, those of us born in possession of it are apt to feel as vulnerable...
...expect Florio to wait for results before launching other initiatives. An assault on the state's medical-insurance costs is already on the drawing boards, and other targets are being defined. New Jersey's Governor knows he cannot stand still: as every boxer learns, success comes from quick footwork...