Word: beset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese writer's life beset with the hazards of suicide and silence, commercialism and inattention? Or does it take place in an unusually literate arena, where new works are still given an avid and intelligent reception? The evidence is conflicting. To be sure, every year, potentially serious readers turn from Kawataba to Mighty Atom. But every year fresh contestants enter poetry and fiction competitions. If some serious publishers have closed their doors, others offer a profusion of monthly, bimonthly and weekly magazines, about...
...unlike the prosperity of the '20s and '50s, Trudeau continued, the '80s are beset by economics problems unheard of in earlier eras, remaining his audience of the right job market they will soon confront...
...Wiliiamsburg, George Washington nurtured his friendships with Virginia's revolutionary leaders, and took military commissions that sent him to the frontier in the French and Indian War. Did Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, beset by European complaints about burgeoning U.S. deficits, know that his earliest counterpart, Alexander Hamilton, commanded the bayonet attack on the British redoubts at Yorktown, only 13 miles from Wiliiamsburg, in the decisive battle of the Revolution...
While other cities went broke, Mayor Bill presided over Denver's boom years, when the skyline sprouted glass-and-steel towers and residents approved some $350 million worth of building projects. Although McNichols was never under suspicion, his administration was beset by scandals and his reputation as a good manager was tarnished by the revelations about his appointees...
...PRINCIPALS, the most convincing and charming by far is Cherry Jones as Lady Teazle, the brash young wife of a cantankerous but adoring city nobleman (Alvin Epstein). Beset by the slimy advances of Joseph, the importunations of her husband, and the nattering and bickering of her circle of gossips, she nevertheless tends to hold the center of attention. The flock of reprobates around her project a great many varieties of competent villainy, from the goodnatured profligacy of Stephen Rowe as Charles to the simpering idiocy of Thomas Derrah as Benjamin Backbite. The ART also has lived up to its Faculty...