Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vatican watchers the occasion was anything but routine. Along with the 8,000-word statement on the priesthood, two chapters of which were a virtual mini-encyclical on celibacy, John Paul issued a 1,600-word letter to the world's bishops, exhorting them to make certain that priests follow his teachings. Only the Vatican has the power to release a priest from his vows. During John Paul's half year as Pope, the Vatican has received more than 300 petitions from individual priests. So far he has refused to endorse a single one. By contrast...
After considering a number of alternatives-ranging from a racy tabloid ("the fuel-injected Minneapolis Tangerine," it was jokingly called) to a sober newspaper of record ("the Minneapolis Times, "after a certain self-important daily in New York City)-the committees selected a middle course. The result: the Star's traditional no-frills hard-news approach was shucked in favor of more analytical coverage, occasionally frivolous feature stories, breezier writing and zestier graphics. The company did its part by increasing the editorial budget $1.4 million, to $5.5 million. Star reporters began turning up in such far-flung places...
...price controls beginning in June, and to bring in a "windfall profits" tax. Scrapping controls will allow U.S. oil prices, which average about $9.45 per bbl., to rise during the next two years to the cartel-set world level, which already stands at a minimum of $14.55 and is certain to climb still higher. The oil companies would get an extra $6.5 billion in earnings annually from decontrol, but about half of the money would be taxed away. The Government would use much of the tax revenues to help industry shoulder the daunting costs of projects aimed at extracting...
Detachment, irony, variety: these are the hallmarks of Kitaj's art, as of the culture it pays homage to. It is anchored in life drawing (the figure, to Kitaj, is the supreme challenge), but this frees him to play with certain areas of art from the past century that are considered, in more orthodox circles, a taboo source. Thus the Picasso from whom one can properly take ideas is the cubist who emerged after 1906. Kitaj, on the other hand, devotes a number of his drawings to making strange pasiches of immature Picasso, the artist of the blue period...
About the only way that homosexuals could find companionship until a few years ago was in gay bars or cruising certain streets. (One result: the rate of alcoholism among homosexuals is estimated at 20% to 30%, three to four times the rate among all adult Americans.) Today Washington, D.C., has more than 80 homosexual organizations, and Boston, with 70. even has one for overweight lesbians...