Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing is triumphant," Sonbert said of the fragmentary elements of montage. Instead, a film's aim is to keep a "constant balance" between its scenes so that a marriage scene may be followed by a funeral. The audience may laugh when the image of a child appears on the screen, but the "laughter is a little bit qualified" by a following image of an ambulance or burning car, Sonbert said...
Although the homeless are not visibly numerous in Harvard Square, their presence is clearly felt. There are, for instance, the men who stay on the grating next to Holyoke Center on Holyoke Street. While their constant pleas for charity may initially cause you to give money, if you pass by them more than three times a day, six or seven days a week, feelings of charity may give way to feelings of guilt, or even worse, to no feelings at all. You may feel guilt because what you pay for college and books could get these men above the subsistence...
...Protestants...they are not living high off the hog, either," he added, "[they] live in constant fear of losing their jobs...
...story definitely struck a chord," says Nancy Chase, who, along with fellow reporter-researcher Megan Rutherford, helps select and edit the 20 or so missives that appear every week. Among our recent correspondents: George Bush, who disputed our statement that the median U.S. family income had remained relatively constant since 1977, and Peter Ueberroth, TIME's 1984 Man of the Year, who praised the endangered-earth story...
...devoting time and effort to the development of new Cores which students will find truly interesting, along with constant review and even elimination of less popular Core courses, the directors of the Core Curriculum can achieve a more evenly balanced program that will fulfill its original purpose: to give Harvard students valuable and interesting exposure to the major areas of study outside their fields of concentration...