Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...included magic tricks, physical comedy and Shakespearean soliloquys. Bands larger than current ensembles but smaller than full-fledged orchestras would perform both classical music and popular ditties. In the case of Shakespeare, Levine cleverly demonstrates how well people knew the Bard's works by providing examples of the careful, complex parodies of Shakespeare's plays that were performed in the mid-19th century. The jokes evidence a public familiarity with Shakespeare that would send a frisson of joy through E.D. Hirsh and his many culturally literate disciples...
Imagination remains in order, since last week the Soviet Union completed only the initial stage of a dizzyingly complex election campaign, the first contested balloting in the country's history. Although the period for proposing candidates ended last Tuesday, potential nominees must still pass through a maze of ill-defined voter meetings before they win a spot on the March 26 ballot...
...January 18, 1989 article titled "ART To Receive $2.25 Million Grant," Crimson reporter Melanie R. Williams attempted to grapple with a series of complex grants and awards which the ART has received in the past few years. The matching requirements and inter-relationship of these grants are Byzantine at best, and the reporter did an admirable job. There are, however, a few factual matters that need to be corrected...
...force of tragedy. And if it was the end of some things (of the civil rights movement, of Lyndon Johnson's generous social vision, of the liberals' hope to keep government on its trajectory), it prepared the way for other beginnings: the women's movement, the environmental movement, the complex reverberant life that the '60s would have in the American mind long after the melodrama was over and those previously on fire went to tend their gardens...
...dispute involves a dizzyingly complex array of parties: the Soviets support the Vietnamese puppet regime; the U.S., China, Thailand and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), determined to keep Hanoi from overrunning the region, want to oust the invaders, even if that means risking a return of the Khmer Rouge killers. Suddenly, however, a rare convergence of interests among all parties has made the prospect appear bright that a political settlement may finally end the fighting in Kampuchea. The new optimism has been triggered by a "peace blitz" in Asian capitals. Kampuchean President Heng Samrin began raising hopes...