Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bounds off 1-95, onto a potholed road past clusters of identical houses. The driver cranes his head side-long, "You're almost there. Just beyond this cemetery a bit." The graveyard flashes by. "Here...
...Kennedy has carried the debate over the power of the oil companies beyond economic consideration to reckon with the threat that their vast economic power poses to a fair distribution of political power. He has long favored public funding of Congressional elections. (In 1978, oil industry PACs, oil company directors, executives and lawyers contributed $1.3 million to 34 senators, more than $40,000 for each one. And the U.S. News and World Report estimates that the oil lobby spends up to $75 million a year in Washington...
NOBODY EXPECTED the Eagles to pull this one off. Hotel California, their last album, betrayed a group hesitant to stray from familiar territory, unwilling to explore themes beyond the California fast life, unrequited love and witchy, lying women. And after Hotel California Joe Walsh and Randy Meisner went the solo route, leaving the band treading water in the backwash of the New Wave tide. But somehow the Eagles stayed afloat. Somehow they coaxed Walsh back into the flock, incorporated new themes into their music, and experimented with new sounds. And somehow The Long Run turned out to be a surprisingly...
...women who have worked with the President have looked up at the man across from them and seen something physically new, beyond the natural changes of aging. They have asked themselves exactly what it is-the intensity in the eyes, or the mouth line, or the fractional shift in his jaw set? No one seems quite sure. It could be as much what he says and how he says it. But from both the White House and beyond there is testimony that he is more of a President...
...Cambodian plight has stirred civilized men and women around the globe. Many Americans have a particularly keen sense of compassion about the world's latest tragedy. In part, that feeling is inspired by lingering memories of the long, unhappy involvement of the U.S. in Indochina. Beyond that there is the frustration of knowing that the catastrophe of Cambodia could be averted; that the food, the medical supplies and the will to help do exist. Only the cruel, baffling politics of Southeast Asia stand...