Word: arced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October, 643 arc welder's jobs paying $4.11 to $9.88 an hour went unfilled, as did 315 jobs for electronics technicians, 1,279 openings for insurance sales agents and 532 slots for machinists at $4.16 to $9.80 an hour...
Broadway congenitally hears more "voices" than Joan of Arc. Even before the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic production of Nicholas Nickleby opened at the Plymouth Theater on Oct. 4 for a three-month run, the voices of Mammon and Cassandra could be heard muttering their dire prophecies along Shubert Alley. Mammon said that no sane person would pay the unprecedented price of $100 a ticket. Cassandra moaned that 8½ hours in a seated position, with only a one-hour dinner break, was a spartan rigor that no human frame could endure. (Agreed Socialite C.Z. Guest: "The only...
...differentiations between the normal and the abnormal, and thus of radical new forms of social regulation. Instead of regarding the insane as possessors of a special kind of knowledge, as the Middle Ages did, the Age of Reason locked them up and silenced them. Today Joan of Arc would be treated with Thorazine. Yet Foucault not only insisted that the changing definitions of insanity are arbitrary, but that they also define sanity and, indeed, reason itself. And those definitions also change...
Paris fell to the German army on June 14, 1940, and on that day a Nazi band followed by a battalion of foot soldiers circled the Arc de Triomphe and marched down the Champs Elysees to the Place de la Concorde. Each noon, until the city was liberated more than four years later, the same procession took place, and the French were reminded of their great shame...
...brief Zsa Zsa Gabor imitation. Then she lapses into the somewhat prosy shoptalk of a college-educated actress: "When I read the book, it elicited an emotional reaction in me and I determined to re-create it for someone else through thinking and design, thought and craft. The arc I designed for the character went up and happened." Then the arc-and-craft jargon drops away, and she says a bit wistfully: "Watching the film, I couldn't help wishing that I was more beautiful. There comes a point when you have to look the part, especially in movies...