Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe it is time to open our bags, to stop taking the fatal risk of mistrust. We do not know each other well enough, and this is our common misfortune. The Iron Curtain is in ruins, but enough of its remnants remain standing to block our vision. We see each other through newspapers, which unfortunately are not transparent...
...father in New Mexico came home to find his 13-year-old daughter being visited by a 26-year-old man who had posed as a teen on the phone. The stranger brought his own bottle. Two Albuquerque callers used Scoopline to arrange a drug purchase. Profanity became common on the network; sexual propositions were offered. Eavesdropping parents and some teenagers complained to the telephone companies...
...Bertrand, who won the Cup in 1983, loyally picked Kookaburra, 4-3. Ronald Reagan and Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke could not stay out of the guessing game. In a phone call two weeks ago, the President offered the PM a "proposition on a matter of importance and some common concern to the people of both our nations." He bet "my favorite cowboy hat" on the U.S. entry. Hawke responded by putting a wide-brimmed bush hat on the Kookaburra. Whoever wins, all hats will be off to the men of both teams. Then after a few weeks they...
...this he reflects an attitude increasingly common in newspaper columning, an ambition to personalize the news rather than to report and reflect on it. This requires a strong ego, the kind Rosenthal developed with his power as an editor. Ego seems to have come almost from birth to two columnists conspicuous for it, William F. Buckley and George F. Will. Buckley is the beneficiary of an oil-rich upbringing and a thorough grounding in Roman Catholic thought. Will's father was a college professor, and George was presumably encouraged to air his youthful opinions at the dinner table. After...
...give a 34-year-old artist a retrospective would have seemed absurd, like tossing an egg into the air to admire its grace of flight. Not anymore. The pressures of market hype, acting on curators who do not wish to seem stuffy, have made pseudo events like this common -- even if the brevity of the artist's career fills his curriculum vitae with solemn entries like "1960: Receives from a family friend The Natural Way to Draw, an artist's handbook...