Word: building
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mexican by the careful application of some Ultra-Tan Lotion--stars as Nick Escalante, professional chaperone and "master of edged weapons." Even after chewing on it for three days, I cannot think of word scathing enough to describe Reynolds' somnabulatory performance. He's so wooden that you want to build an addition out of him. He stumbles through the moronic plot like the newly-resurrected, his face frozen into a tanned grimace, with not a single synthetic hair betraying the slightest expression or emotion. As for the story...
THIS WAS SHEER marketing genius--why should the rich waste their money on charity for a mere plaque when for the same money Harvard will build and name a permanent structure on their historic campus in their honor? In Harvard's policy of naming property after whomever will pay, the rich have found the perfect arena to maintain their inflated egos, and we at Harvard have found a great way to fleece them...
...only thing that these four communities have in common is what motivated their creation. Each was set up as a new utopia, a new city on a hill for the people who had the vision to build them. In no other nation, FitzGerald writes, have people so confidently felt that "they can start all over again from scratch...that they can reinvent themselves." This attitude, she argues, is quintisentially American...
...wealth is at the heart of a healthy democracy. The scent of the buck is kindling creativity again even in the depressed farm belt and idled steel valleys. And Reagan's sermon that trade must be free the world over will continue to resonate even as new pressures build for protection...
...recess started last week at Vanderbilt University, one group of students was off in pursuit of more serious exertions. A score went to a Sioux reservation in South Dakota to do painting, tiling and light carpentry at a Y.M.C.A. center; a dozen arrived in Juarez, Mexico, to help build a "serviglesia," a church to serve the poor; another twelve headed for Appalachia's "Valley of Despair" to plant fir trees and work on construction and furniture-building projects. Says Vanderbilt Senior Ethel Johnson, 21, who stayed in Nashville with another team sowing gardens, making curtains and teaching English...