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Van Gogh calls for a different treatment, it seems to me, one that places him more firmly in his time and place and acknowledges his spirited engagement with literature and popular culture.
This set off a spirited debate between the Minneapolis Field Office, FBI headquarters, and the CIA as to whether the Chechen rebels and Khattab were sufficiently associated with a terrorist organization to constitute a "foreign power" for purposes of the FISA statute.
Poetry also came into eschatology in the movies, as many persons found a liking for Blake's Milton in the spirited lines: "Bring me my bow of burning gold/ Bring me my Arrows of Desire!
The novelists, journalists, and thinkers whose prose filled Shawn's New Yorker spent much of their days roaming the office halls, striking up spirited discussions of literature or current affairs.
The third meeting of the six contenders was described as their "most spirited," with numerous disagreements over campaign finance, abortion, taxes, and ethanol subsidies.