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Word: armorers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very easy to lose count as simply as that. But the failure of common sense is absolutely weird in its stupidity. Any good journalist who'd been living in Moscow in the later years of Brezhnev would know that nothing worked anymore. The knight was dying inside his armor, and somehow that human perception never made itself felt in intelligence analyses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Distorted Our Own Minds: John le Carre | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

...coming out. All Coulson could do was watch, and think about the children: "The strongest instinct is a mother's instinct for a child." Then word came from Waco that one or two people had been spotted outside the building and that agents, protected only by their helmets, body armor and green flight suits of fire-resistant Nomex, were leaving the safety of their armored vehicles and going after them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Branch Davidians: Oh, My God, They're Killing Themselves! | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...levitate the roof just off the walls, creating an intense ribbon of natural light instead of some ordinary bolts-and-concrete seam. Outside, the pair of connected buildings, both clad in perfect, curved, wafer-thin sheets of stainless steel, look like 21st century allusions to 16th century Japanese armor, at once futuristic and resonant with the past. "One of architecture's functions," Maki has said, "is to awaken subconscious memories of shapes." He does so, at Fujisawa and elsewhere, by means of a sort of New Age Gothic, in which romantic form follows rational function, in which the architecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Sublime To the Meticulous | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...humor that I cherish," Rudnick says. "It's a form of gay soul. I hate people who imagine it's simply bitchiness or some sort of ghetto response to intolerance. Nah, it's much bigger than that, and much more fun." It also provides gays with perhaps their sturdiest armor against the gay holocaust. And it is this strength Jeffrey so smartly taps. Most plays about AIDS, including this year's Pulitzer prizewinner Angels in America, send the disease's victims raging or nobly wasting away into the bleak night. They can play Lear or Camille, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laughing on The Inside Too: PAUL RUDNICK | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

Since the drama consists mainly of dialogue, the director has less scope for innovation than in other plays. But Kamarei introduces some interesting touches. During one of Rosencrantz's monologues, Broder acts out scenes of brutal bloodletting with a sword and armor. The fine blocking and motion in the silent interchanges between our two heroes indicate Kamarei's talents...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Alive and Well | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

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