Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peabody officials said this week that they have informally begun talks with Perot's associates about constructing a Texas extension to the Peabody and renting it some artifacts on a rotating basis. The extension would be built by, and would bear the name of the Dallas computer magnate...
...issue provoked some testiness in both Washington and Jerusalem. The White House was particularly irked at Israel's initial offer to consider releasing the captives if Reagan made such a request. "That was a very dumb signal," said one Administration official. "It confirmed what the Arabs have already begun to think about the Israelis since the prisoner exchange," he added, referring to the perception of lowered resolve in Jerusalem created by last month's one-sided deal. For his part, Rabin at one point publicly complained of Washington's "unofficial pressure designed to make us volunteer" to release the prisoners...
...massage. Their shape retains an obstinate integrity, the precise result of a sudden movement. And by the early to mid-'60s, the time of the great triptychs, when Bacon decisively abandoned the "spectral," scumbled evocations of the face used in his Popes and caged businessmen, his figures had begun to embody an immense plastic power. Sometimes these creatures, knotted in contrapposto, seem desperately mannered; but there are other moments when the smearing and knotting of flesh, not so much depicted as reconstituted in the fatty whorls and runs of paint, take on a tragic density closer to Michelangelo than...
...week's first hijacking had begun on Tuesday, when half a dozen Shi'ites stormed aboard a Jordanian-owned Boeing 727 at Beirut airport. They overpowered eight Jordanian security guards, then ordered the Swedish pilot to fly to Larnaca, Cyprus...
Alternatively, the U.S. could go to the presumed root of the trouble: Iran. Carrier-based U.S. warplanes could, for instance, bomb an Iranian air base, an action that the Carter Administration considered taking if Iran had begun to kill the hostages seized at the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Or the planes could hit the oil-refining and shipping facilities on Kharg Island; that would damage the Iranian economy but cause minimum loss of life...