Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other side holds that Mapplethorpe's work is pornography posing as art. His works, this faction contends, should be shown privately, preferably in a red-light district. In fact, some of Mapplethorpe's work is so graphic that if authorities had chosen to do so, they could have prosecuted him for child pornography, which has no First Amendment protection...
Heaney, an Irish national, was chosen for the honor only months after delivering a speech highly critical of British attitudes toward the Irish...
...redress all grievances, we have a new Batman movie. Director Tim Burton has chosen to make a deadly solemn film about a superhero whose mental state is just this side of psychotic. This Batman does not battle crime out of any sense of moral righteousness. He does it because he is obsessed. He likes to scare the hell out of crooks by dangling them off the edge of skyscrapers. He enjoys slinking around in the dark, vanishing and reappearing without warning in the thick mist that envelops Gotham...
...fact, the highest-chosen Harvard player in the 12-round selection process has never worn a Crimson uniform. Ted Drury, the highly-touted recruit out of Fairfield Prep, was taken late in the second round by the Calgary Flames. Drury's second-round selection makes him the highest-drafted player on this year's Crimson squad...
Along with the original newscasts, the reconstituted Whittle Communications Educational Network plans to offer two broad categories of new programming. < Classroom Channel will feature educational material chosen by an independent advisory board, which will also determine whether the channel will accept advertising. Educators' Channel will offer instructional services for teachers and school administrators. But the ambitious scheme will still be funded by four 30-second spots during Channel One's daily newscast. The new plan no longer requires a school to offer the program in every classroom...