Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will undoubtedly be as big a draw in the lecture hall as he is in the box office. The department should make sure that its new visiting lecturer has the chance to mix with the student body during his brief stay here. It should encourage Lee to teach a large- to medium-sized lecture course, rather than a small class limited to only a few students...
Joining reporter Lara Marlowe and photographer Rudi Frey at TIME's outpost in the formerly luxe Kuwait International Hotel, Kramer found there was no electricity and little hot food, and that water ran only twice a day for brief periods. Besides food, one of the most important commodities in Kuwait City right now is spare tires. "People steal them, and with no electricity there's no way to repair them," says Kramer. "There are so many sharp pieces of metal on the road that a trip to the border is considered -- at a minimum -- a 'three-spare' trip...
...Russian, a kind of starets, or holy man, filled with chiliastic dreams of the future of art, with an eye for promotion and a remarkable ability to get under the skin of other artists. His decisiveness was amazing. A weak start -- some feeble pastiches of Impressionism, and then a brief phase of yearning Symbolist mystagogy. But then the impact of Fauvism kicked in around 1910, and there was no stopping him. With a kind of relentless metabolic energy, Malevich started grinding through the styles of the Parisian avant-garde, producing unmistakably Russian paintings as he did so. "I remained...
...Georgia, 104 troops of the 24th Infantry Division, still dressed in desert camouflage, climbed off the plane in the middle of the night to a raucous celebration in which military discipline instantly fell apart. Friends and relatives swarmed onto the field to engulf the soldiers. A trooper protested a brief military formation by shouting: "The women are waiting, and the beer is cold!" No one in Hinesville slept that night...
...second reason is that now, after the glory of a brief war which saw the enemy surrender in droves rather than face a superior army, Americans will be more willing to support military adventurism abroad--especially when the recession ends. The Gulf War was everything the Vietnam War was not--short, relatively casualty-free for Americans and eminently successful. If Vietnam put the U.S. in international doldrums, the Gulf War can only lead to even louder calls for Bush's "next American century...