Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beginning in July, contractors will begin a complete redesign of the northern sections of Mass. Ave. The construction is scheduled to eliminate much of the median, add bicycle lanes and renovate both sewer lines and sidewalks...
Sources say it took over a year to begin an official investigation into the incidents because the victims were reluctant to bring formal complaints...
...what point does an array of colored squares in a regular grid begin to turn into a recognizable image? The question touches on the mystery of Realist painting--how it is, for instance, that when looking close up at a Velasquez you see a flurry of gray-and-pink spots and streaks, and when you move back a couple of feet, that same patch has become a glistening silver embroidery on rose velvet. All of Close's art recalls his fixation on this effect, the brain seeking illusion in pattern, questing for clues: Close will break a face down into...
Biggest blunders: Iran-contra; national debt; "We begin bombing in five minutes..." Historians' comments: "Brought about sea change"; "Maybe ended the cold war"; "Jury still...
...begin with, King was a preacher who spoke in biblical cadences ideally suited to leading a stride toward freedom that found its inspiration in the Old Testament story of the Israelites and the New Testament gospel of Jesus Christ. Being a minister not only put King in touch with the spirit of the black masses but also gave him a base within the black church, then and now the strongest and most independent of black institutions...