Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course those running for president, no matter how much they try to convince the voters, don't consider themselves to be regular Joes. In fact, they develop a messiah complex. How could they not? The candidates spend a year listening to their own voice listing the reasons they, and no one else, should be president. No doubt they convince themselves, if no one else. But then a president doesn't need to be a messiah; he or she just has to be a responsible human. And perhaps once we have realized that, we will start voting with our minds...
...pointed to a massive complex a little way down the road. It didn't look like much of a church to me. It looked more like a small city. Or a fort...
...causing a drain on funds. He warned that Satan would find ways to thwart God's work. Obviously, Swaggart pays God's salary and He recently demanded a raise. But the Bakker sex scandal did not stop the flow of postal trucks arriving every day at Swaggart's complex, which has its very own zip code...
...future looks to hold something for more ominous than the death of rock 'n' roll: its preservation. Not preservation in youthful splendor, like Dorian Gray, but in arrested decay--never improving but merely slowed in its collapse to an infinitisimal slouch, like Joan Collins on collagen-fiber complex, showing remnants of past sexiness and vitality but long past the capacity for excercising them...
...most problematic part of the Times Square redevelopment plan is the Johnson-Burgee complex, which will straddle the confluence of 42nd Street, Broadway and Seventh Avenue. The planned buildings are of varying heights (29, 37, 49 and 56 stories) but otherwise identical: grand colonnades, red and pink granite, glass mansard roofs. These will be hulking structures, with more than twice the square footage of the area's current most egregious behemoth: John Portman's 50-story Marriott Marquis hotel a few blocks up Broadway...