Word: confounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trade divides the presidential contenders in both parties in ways that confound the traditional left-right political spectrum. Among Republicans, New York Congressman Jack Kemp is an ardent free trader, Vice President George Bush loyally supports the President's advocacy of limited sanctions against Japan, and Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole is, to put it bluntly, all over the map. The Kansas Senator has at various points supported both Senate Democrats and the Administration on trade while also aggressively promoting subsidies for agricultural exports. Trade is an issue for Republicans, but among Democrats it could emerge as the salient issue...
Written in verse, Shange's dialogue is powerful but occasionally seems to confound the actors. How does one convey the script's unpunctuated sentences or uncapitalized words? Only Jaqueline Hayes (Lily) is undaunted by the complexity of the figurative language. She is human and funny throughout...
SENIOR David Lee bills Them, his blessedly short one act, as "a race-reversal play." Set in Savannah, Ga. in the 1950's, it attempts to confound our old notions of Black and white. That's a fine ambition, but all Lee and his small cast succeed in doing is reversing some flimsy stereotypes and confounding the audience with an unimpressive production...
...shoulders with the muralist Diego Rivera, dodging the postrevolutionary turmoil and making pictures under the Mexican sun that specifies every object it falls upon. Among them were a series of vivid head shots, like his startling portrait of Manuel Hernandez Galvan, 1924, that use the subjects' plain vitality to confound the impassivity one expects from monumental figures. The Mexican portraits show that Weston had absorbed the principles delivered to him by Alfred Stieglitz, words that Weston later summarized as a "maximum of detail with a maximum of simplification...
...travel was better in those days; the surfaces are better today. But if you start arguing dead balls and bad gloves, spitballs and relief pitchers, nobody can win." All the same, he had to put in a word for speedy "black outfielders," none of whom were allowed to confound Cobb. "Willie Mays and Bobby Bonds were chasing my stuff down," Rose reminded. In a telephone call ) that much entertained the press box, a deskman back at one newspaper had a question: "Is he saying black people run faster than white people?" Stop the presses...