Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half-way point of the Cambridge City Council's two year tenure even members say there are few real accomplishments to show for their effort, despite passage last night of a tough new anti-smoking ordinance...
...Cambridge City Council passed a strict amendment to its anti-smoking ordinance last night at city hall. As of March...
That had been a strong possibility even before last week's bombshells about the contra cash diversion. The sale of arms to Iran had hit a raw nerve in a public still nursing bitter memories of the violent anti-Americanism displayed during the hostage crisis of 1979-81, and the Administration's early explanations of the rationale and methodology of the shipments convinced hardly anyone. Briefings of the Senate and House intelligence committees by Poindexter, CIA Director William Casey and other officials on Friday, Nov. 21, failed to dispel congressional feelings that the full story had still not come...
...Senator David Durenberger, a Republican and reluctant contra supporter: "It's going to be a cold day in Washington before any more money goes to Nicaragua. Ollie may have killed off his Nicaraguan program." Such a reaction has little logic. There are valid arguments for and against helping the anti-Sandinista guerrillas, but the issue should be debated on its merits rather than being made a kind of extralegal, and ineffective, penalty against...
...four sides with such a tangle of ducts, pipes, risers and shafts that it became the first steel-and-glass building to exclude almost all natural light from its cavernous interior. Since Beaubourg was meant to be (in the jargon of the day) a culturally transparent, non-elitist, participatory, anti-hierarchical, modular omnisensorium, it had no walls to speak of: walls were for palaces and prisons. Instead it had temporary screens, on which its Matisses and Miros hung transfixed like rabbits in the glare of spotlights. Entropy set in the moment it opened...