Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here to take away the enormous publicrelations value given by Harvard to amass-murderer who has for 24 years plundered hiscountry and abused his people," Aron said in aninterview
...landlubbers who find yacht racing about as exciting as watching grass grow might get a charge out of the litigious storm swirling around the America's Cup. After the San Diego Yacht Club defeated a challenger from New Zealand a year ago, a New York judge took the Cup away from skipper Dennis Conner and awarded it to the loser. The judge reasoned that Conner had violated the "spirit" of the competition by racing a featherweight catamaran as a last-minute response to New Zealand's extra-long 132-ft. monohull...
...that a revival of racial tensions could cause almost as much harm as Hugo. Memories still linger of 1972, when eight people (seven of them white) were murdered on a golf course by gun-toting black leftists. Virgin Islands Governor Alexander Farrelly, who stayed on St. Thomas, 37 miles away, insisted that reports of lawlessness were distorted and exaggerated. Witnesses, he said, may have mistaken looters for police and guardsmen because they were wearing stolen uniforms and driving hijacked vehicles. Farrelly delayed asking for help until it became clear that Washington was going to send troops whether he wanted them...
...young woman, who is quite pretty, has skipped across the main street of my New Hampshire town to say this. "Thanks," I tell her modestly, wondering if it would be all right to twirl my mustache. I borrowed this Mazda MX-5 Miata three days ago. People edge away when I park my usual vehicle, a large black four-wheel-drive Ford plow truck with red pinstriping and air horns. But the Miata gets passersby smiling and talking: teenagers, old couples, a fellow dressed in muscles and a camouflage shirt at a tire store, bicyclists in bicycle suits. Other conspicuous...
...cooperative process in which Picasso (for a short time) was relieved of the psychic burden of egoistic creation -- the loneliness of the virtuoso -- and the more cautious and measured Braque was spurred into radical experiment. It marks, more clearly than any other, the point at which modern art broke away from commonsense vision and split its audience into a tiny coterie who "got it" and a large majority who did not. By making the process of creation part of its subject, it ushered in the self-reflexiveness of modernism: art thinking about...