Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That won't do much for America's image. But it could well bolster Saddam's. He has always believed defiance, as in surviving a military onslaught, brings admiration. That's why Saddam's fall from power--the ultimate goal of the Administration--seems as elusive as ever. The already weak Iraqi opposition groups to whom the U.S. has given its blessing watched last week's raids with a sense of mounting dread. The Administration has so far withheld outright military assistance for a guerrilla campaign, and would-be recipients fear the bombings will create a false impression of progress...
...intelligence, Parade is a somber show that falls uncomfortably between the stools of history and art. The facts are treated respectfully enough to make the digressions into cliche annoying. To bolster Frank's status as a victim, for example, his lawyer is portrayed as a clueless Southern blowhard whose legal strategy consists mainly of keeping Frank from testifying and having him make an impromptu statement to the jury instead. In reality, according to Steve Oney, author of a history of the case to be published next year, Frank was represented by two of the most respected members of Atlanta...
...story was a headshaker. Ruth Sherman, a white Brooklyn, N.Y., elementary school teacher, assigned her class a book called Nappy Hair, about a little girl's proud acceptance of her coily mane, in order to bolster the self-esteem of her black and Latino charges. But some parents, after seeing only a few photocopied pages, assumed the book was a racist put-down and essentially ran Sherman out of the school. Most New Yorkers were torn between amazement at the brouhaha and pity for the children, who have lost a good teacher. But for Trevelyn Jones, book-review editor...
...survey to be published by Black Enterprise magazine in January may bolster Kane's assertion. Harvard placed 28th in the magazine's listing of colleges where African Americans are likely to succeed, a list dominated by many historically black colleges. Only one other Ivy League school--Columbia--ranked higher than Harvard...
...Busch-Reisinger exhibition does an adequate job of presenting the complexity of Weimar visual culture. There are no flagship pieces; not one oil painting graces the show (where is Christian Schad?). Copious books have been placed in the hallway outside the exhibit to bolster the scanty offerings. There is a characteristic Georg Grosz sketch of men and women walking about, greedy and mean, but it feels like little more than a twig compared to the corpus of Grosz's works. The same is true of the representation given of Beckmann, Feiniger, Albers, Schlemmer and other Weimar stars. The only artist...