Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freelance set designer 11 months of the year, Freed originated the store's concept last October, renting a space near Harvard Square, when she was low on cash and out of work...
...scriptural authority for giving Sanctuary to the refugees, Christian activists sometimes cite Leviticus 19: 34: "The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself." The concept of asylum flourished in the Middle Ages, when churches and monasteries sheltered most criminals from their pursuers for up to 40 days, until the fugitive chose either exile or surrender to civil authority. The 19th century U.S. underground railroad, which smuggled slaves from the South to safety, could be regarded as a unique American application of the biblical injunction. Sanctuary supporters...
...boutiques and concept cafes along Haight Street are sometimes under the proprietorship of veterans of those heady days, but more likely they are the ventures of mercantile types who sense retail opportunity in buying into the Haight's historic consciousness. It's a decent place for a walk and worth a shopping spree for expensive used clothing, but it's not a way of life...
...Reagan held forth on tax reform at the bakery, McFarlane informed the President at about midday that it might be possible to intercept the jetliner. In a private room inside the bakery, Reagan agreed in principle to the move and provided "one or two elements of guidance on the concept and on the rules." By that he apparently meant whether U.S. interceptors would shoot if the EgyptAir flight failed to obey orders. The rules discussed in Chicago covered only the initial stages of the mission. If the Egyptian pilot resisted, the U.S. pilots would have had to radio for further...
...other way for me to go but forward." The kimono may be "a shape frozen in time," but Miyake not only took from it a way of cutting and wrapping clothes and a means for construction of a sleeve that did not constrict, he used its central concept of the space between body and cloth as a way to let wearer and garment interact, to make from their respective shapes a whole new form...