Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular. A bunch of fine works indicate why. The fall novels by John Updike and Irving--Rabbit is Rich and The Hotel New Hampshire, respectively--continue to ring up big sales months after their releases. Of course, these books were virtually insured of popularity, being descendants of previous block-busters--Updike's American Rabbit Angstrom and Irving's macabre writing about writers and bears...
...city council would have to approve the creation of a neighborhood conservation district which would give community residents the power to block demolitions. Before the council vote, a study commission of historical committee members and neighborhood residents would have to produce a report on the issue...
...State Robert Hormats: "In the past, the Soviet Union has used energy exports as a political lever, interrupting supplies to Yugoslavia, Israel and China, among others." Only last month, Myer Rashish, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, trekked to Europe for some last-minute lobbying to block the deal...
...spontaneous expression of the "complexity and contradiction in architecture" that Robert Venturi, in his famed book of that title, asked postmodern architects to design into their buildings. But no postmodernist would dare produce the assaults on aesthetics that some of these homeowners do. Their houses wear curlers to the block party and are unself-conscious about it. As one Vergara subject cheerfully replied when asked about the style of her renovated house, "Early American Salvation Army...
Cynthia Madeiros, president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization for Women said progressive groups must work together in the coming decade. She noted that one of the effects of President Reagan's emphasis on Block Grant funding would be to force social service groups to "fight among themselves for the funds...