Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...naive and highly dangerous, therefore, to pretend that with the end of this latest war, war is abolished. Yet that is what we want to believe. In 1943 Secretary of State Cordell Hull returned from the Moscow Conference that set the foundation for a United Nations and told a joint session of Congress that as the provisions of the conference were carried out, "there will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power, or any other of the special arrangements through which, in the unhappy past, the nations strove to safeguard their security...
...local CUT members pulling their children from schools and leaving their jobs, it would seem that something more is up. That feeling was heightened recently when Prophet sold the local building that houses the church's printing operation, a prime source of revenue. At least one internal church memo set last Friday as the day that members should be ready to go underground. Another memo quotes a representative of Guru Ma telling a shelter-group meeting, "You must do nothing but eat, sleep . . . and work at least twelve hours a day until the shelters are completed...
With this show and its catalog essay, curator Paul Hayes Tucker, the leading U.S. expert on Monet, has set out to amend a number of received ideas about the artist. Chief among them is Cezanne's opinion: "Only an eye, but my God! What an eye!" In this view, Monet becomes a painter of mere sensation, exquisitely attuned to every sense impression but lacking social point and intellectual fiber...
...same time, he took to painting in series: the same image over and over again. Why so many versions? The reasons are complex, as the motives of any great artist are, but one was his desire to prove the ordering power of impressionism, its ability to set forth infinite discriminations of experience. How many times can you see the same thing and find it different? Monet's serial paintings look for an answer...
...Crimson's Jon "Ba" Cardi sealed the match before the doubles teams took the court, triumphing in a three-set nailbiter over an unhappy Iowan...