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He avers that he respects olive trees and aspires to preserve as many as possible but that there's no stopping, or even slowing, technological advancement, market integration, or American cultural hegemony.
Notice how the trompe l’oeil painting on the low arched ceiling aspires to turn the little church into a lofty Gothic cathedral.
There are periods in which the work fades into hermeticism; there are periods when it aspires to a lyric summing up, as in the four Seasons (1986), in which the shadow of the artist is projected onto a sequence of Johnsian montages.
It's the way McCain aspires to draw political reform, environmentalism, an internationalist foreign policy, and more together in a call for renewed civic engagement.
On Tuesday, May 11, Chris Matthews interviewed Kathleen Willey on CNBC's Hardball , the cable program that aspires to be to the Clinton scandals what Nightline was to the Iranian hostage crisis and Robert MacNeil's PBS show was to Watergate.