Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprise came when the Faculty Council, after a few weeks of closed meetings, decided that the first two recommendations (the department representatives and the standing committee) would not work, and refused to bring them up to a vote of the full Faculty...
Still, a puritan conscience recoils a little from the sheer power of photographs. They have lingering about them the ghost of the golden calf -- the bright object too much admired, without God's abstract difficulties. Great photographs bring the mind alive. Photographs are magic things that traffic in mystery. They float on the surface, and they have a strange life in the depths of the mind. They bear watching...
...fabric of images that can obscure the underlying realities or throw them into greater relief. Because every patch of earth, no matter how remote, is littered with discarded film cans, cameras have to patrol the far edge of the solar system to find sights that still rank as exotic. Bring us the rings of Neptune. Saturn's we've already seen...
...state housing collectives back home. I've gone through your papers and read all about the two-headed Abominable Snowmen and the psychic cures for arthritis -- Oh, the secret balsam-water diet that lets you lose 40 lbs. in two days and prevents tooth decay? Leonid wants me to bring the details back...
...precision new to Jones. That may be partly the work of her producer, Walter Becker (of Steely Dan), but the songs here are tightly and cunningly constructed into a diary of spiritual loss, quest and endurance. The record is so intense that when Jones sings Love Is Gonna Bring Us Back Alive, a nifty reggae tune, the optimism cuts deep because so much that's come before has been so unsparing. The song is a victory cry from a performer who almost counted herself out. Now she's back, looking like her old self: the most gifted woman...