Word: blur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interrupted the rehearsal in order to convince the A.R.T. actors to play out their story, a tragicomic family drama of incest, betrayal and death. Finally convinced that it would be more fun than rehearsing for Sganarelle, the A.R.T. actors oblige. But strange things begin to happen as the actors blur the distinction between reality and illusion. The characters' entire visitation has a sense of mystery, marvelously enhanced by staging, make-up, and numerous feats of technical wizarry...
Though lines of autonomy inevitably blur to some extent, it was clear that the Mondale committees were far from independent operations. Most were spawned by a memo sent in January by Elaine Kamarck, a Mondale coordinator, to potential Mondale delegates offering assistance to those who wished to form local fund-raising units. Kamarck noted that while Mondale himself had called PAC contributions improper for a presidential candidate, the delegate committees "may make their own decision." Critics charge that this was an open invitation for committees to seek hefty donations from labor-union PACs. Many delegate groups did: of the contributions...
Says Sam Allis, who has been following Walter Mondale for TIME: "When I look back on this year, it will almost certainly be a blur. I have eaten every known kind of Danish and tasted coffee that was clearly brewed from petroleum byproducts. I have watched...
...telescopes--six meters in diameter and movable on a y-shaped track to bring distant objects in space into focus--would be capable of producing previously unattained "resolution." That is, they would have the ability to visually separate close objects in space which currently appear only as a blur of light, Cornell said...
...chances are you won't find him anywhere Dreben, one of the Faculty's busiest members, seems to travel from role to role in a blur that rarely materializes in any one office...