Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigator's post was a former Marine who had been court-martialed twice. The Governor's special assistant went on leave after being charged with extortion. Such blunders have prompted publication of a hot-selling Evan Mecham joke book. One entry: "What do Mecham's political appointees have in common? Parole officers...
...surgery at the University of Arizona in Tucson, told of a black teenager who showed up at St. Louis City Hospital in 1968 with chronic genital swelling. The youngster, then 15, admitted that he was sexually active; laboratory tests disclosed that he had a severe case of chlamydia, a common but curable venereal disease. Doctors prescribed several antibiotics and put him on a low-salt diet. Nothing worked. His muscles wasted away, and his lungs filled with fluid. Robert R. died on May 15, 1969. An autopsy revealed the distinctive purplish lesions of AIDS- related Kaposi's sarcoma...
...film is a barrage of color and motion, consisting mainly of animation except the initial scene's live photography, filmed in the Cambridge Common...
...never had any experience like that, and Iwould be surprised if it were a common thing,"said Christopher P. Davis who graduated from theLaw School in 1980. "I would think this would killthe nomination. common or not. People in Iowaaren't going to understand that kind of thing...
...long afterward, the vogue for graffiti would release floods of glitzy dreck that shared the same eye-grabbing fervor. Indeed, both were grounded in the same area, a sense of common life, but only Stella was able to make it work aesthetically. Those who think abstract art should betoken "spirituality" are bound to be put off by the materialist cast of mind that lends its here-and-now toughness to even the most florid of Stella's works. Relentlessly inventive, marred only by the glaring, grinding overcomplication of some of his pictorial machines, he is a paragon of mental horsepower...