Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meantime, most evidence suggests that the first bloom of the revolution is beginning to wilt. Agricultural output, the key to any improvement for Ethiopia's impoverished peasants, has stagnated: state farms set up after the revolution cover 4% of Ethiopia's arable land and consume 76% of available fertilizer, yet 80% are operating at a loss...
...than sketches of great men and political events. That small band of Virginians two centuries ago relished good wine, played their fiddles with delight if uneven skill, spent the gentle evenings talking about literature, philosophy and the new findings in medicine and science. They examined the delicacy of the bloom in more than a hundred small gardens and inhaled the subtle scents of the catalpa trees ("Almost everything grows that is put into the ground," marveled a Swiss visitor in 1701). They worked and studied prodigiously for their beliefs, a diligence that became the young nation's defining trait...
...amid a crowd of 400 applicants, qualified for one of 20 places at the theatrical academy, no one except her mother believed it. One of her audition pieces, she says, and here she giggles at the thought of her innocent 17-year-old self, was part of Molly Bloom's erotic soliloquy from Ulysses...
...months ago, managed, by contrast, to crawl away with only four minor trophies. Gandhi took most of the awards E. T. was expected to get, including Best Director (Richard Attenborough), Best Original Screenplay (John Briley), Best Cinematography (Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor) and Best Film Editing (John Bloom). All in all, the 3-hr. 5-min. epic won eight prizes, more than any other film since Cabaret, which snatched eight...
...music directors as disparate in taste and talents as Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf and, now, Seiji Ozawa, 47, it has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to adapt to almost any type of music conductorial style. Boston's full strings, warm winds and elegant brass are always in bloom...