Word: confrontive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time since the election almost unnoticed in Houston, assembling the 25-member staff that will work with him in Washington. But he emerged briefly from his self-imposed anonymity last week to chat in his cramped office with TIME Correspondent Douglas Brew about the problems that will confront the new Administration and the role he expects to play...
...under construction for various corporate and civic bodies. She held a show of her wood constructions and collages at Wildenstein last spring, and throughout the summer a selection of her major "environmental" sculptures from the '50s and '60s-arrays and assemblies of separate pieces, meant to confront the viewer with whole surrounding families of shape and texture-went on view at the Whitney Museum in New York. This year, according to her dealer, Nevelson is "resting." Rest, in terms of a career like hers, is an extremely relative term...
...power of criticism properly to evoke." He studies himself as a beginning writer and concludes: "I am not sure that I detect much promise in his work." He characterizes his low-echelon work with the British Secret Service during World War II as "futile." Occasionally, he has to confront the specter of one of his triumphs. He does so suspiciously: "The Heart of the Matter was a success in the great vulgar sense of that term. There must have been something corrupt there, for the book appealed too often to weak elements in its readers...
...NOTEBOOK: The hoopsters have a doubleheader this weekend. Friday night the squad takes on Villanova, ranked 17th nationally and featuring a 6'4" center. Saturday the pressure eases somewhat as the hoopsters confront Williams, a less than awesome division II contender...
Though Alexander Haig's opinions on foreign policy are not widely known, he has expressed his thoughts emphatically in recent speeches and interviews on some of the main issues he will confront as Secretary of State...