Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...areas in which this happened was sculpture. It was perhaps the last time that a sculptor could imagine, in good faith, that he was history's megaphone. The social power of art was still unquestioned, and to change the language of sculpture was, at least potentially, an act of real cultural and moral significance. In those 40 years, the language of sculpture underwent the most searching revision it had had, perhaps in its whole history, and certainly since the time of Bernini and his followers in the 17th century. It moved, to put it roughly, from the lump...
...away from the electric chair in Holman prison near Atmore, Ala., when a last-minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court won him a stay of execution. Evans did not ask for it; his mother did. Evans had told reporters that his death would be the "one constructive, positive act in a blasted life...
Carter's "First Amendment Privacy Protection Act" was part of a larger package of bills proposed or promised last week to protect the privacy of individuals. Individuals would be able to see, and copy, reports about their credit and their character that banks, insurance and loan companies regularly share with each other. Carter also urged new privacy safeguards on the more than 4 billion records on individuals (an average of 18 for each U.S. citizen) now held by the Federal Government, and asked Congress to restrict disclosure of the large assortment of information being stored by the new Electronic...
...Drew wants to be a singer, Rosemarie wants to be a dancer, and they both want to be in love. There are obstacles along the path to a happy ending. Rosemarie's stern mom (Viveca Lindfors) feels that deaf people should stick to their own kind. Drew must act as keeper for both his gambling dad (Alex Rocco) and his ne'er-do-well kid brother (Barry Miller). Meanwhile, agents are not breaking down the doors to offer the young lovers performing contracts...
...number of national issues from energy to urban blight to aging. More than 35,000 Americans responded." An ARCO official told The New York Times that the company's three long-term public policy concerns were the withdrawal of public lands from development, the stringency of the Clean Air Act and increasing government regulation of corporations. ARCO's programs to mobilize employees and propagandize the public against these threats to its economic interest are described in its annual report under the rubric of "Corporate Responsibility." That takes chutzpah...