Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cornelia Ruff, 70, a retired secretary, said she was staying "to protect my property." Her home, built in 1894, has withstood all the storms since, including the unnamed but unforgettable 1900 hurricane that killed 6,000 people in Galveston. Ann Ferguson, 40, a Galveston museum director, remarked on the curious effects of an impending hurricane. "Everyone is in extremely good humor," she said. "The storm brings out the best in people...
...size of this year's defense budget increase. He also sponsored Kenneth Adelman to be Eugene Rostow's successor as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, despite Adelman's unfamiliarity with arms control issues. Last spring Clark encouraged Reagan to go ahead with his curious star wars missile-defense speech despite the cautions of Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Shultz. "It's the first time in my life," says one colleague and ally about Clark's style, "where intelligence and the power of your logic are not what it's about...
...Penck, 43, is a lesser painter and sculptor than Baselitz, but he is a more curious figure. Credit where credit is due: his huge early pictographs like Standard, 1971, have an undeniable, simple power, even a degree of mystery. One realizes where a New York graffiti artist like the fulsomely promoted Keith Haring, 25-the Peter Max of the subways-filched his ideas, a decade later. Penck's paintings consist of stick figures and linear signs, enacting parodies of myth, ritual and archaic language. They draw on a wide range of sources, from algebra to Dipylon vases, from...
...women. Yet this sketchy definition of the man is not a weakness in the work; as young women, the narrators intuitively understand and empathize primarily with the feelings and experiences of the women around them. They merely accept and reach to the men, whose actions and weaknesses are often curious or fearful, and never completely understood by the girls...
...just so voracious about learning, and he never wasted a moment--he was so curious, so interested, so involved, and so vital," his mother said, citing the advanced science, math, and language courses that her son took at Harvard...