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Maybe so, but there's something opportunistic about Léger's abrupt embrace of urban life.
Both theory and empirical evidence pointed to the same verdict: The universe had an abrupt beginning in time.
Degas' pragmatic association of photography with death recalls Roland Barthes' far more melodramatic one: "Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death."
The Los Angeles Times and Washington Post lead with the House Judiciary Committee's abrupt decision Thursday to drop (after only two days) President Clinton's 1996 campaign finances from the areas it will consider in its impeachment inquiry.
Dot matrix plots comparing the amino acid sequence of midasin from different organisms reveal the presence of five major domains through an abrupt change in the level of sequence conservation at domain boundaries (Figs.