Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only by licensed dealers, who would be taxed and heavily regulated; for example, they would be forbidden to sell to anyone under 21 years old. But there are many variations. Some supporters would permit the legal sale of marijuana only; Washington Mayor Marion Barry might add cocaine but is dead set against legalizing PCP (angel dust). Economist Friedman would permit the sale of every imaginable brand of upper and downer at the local drugstore. Dershowitz would go so far as to distribute heroin free from mobile vans in inner cities to "medically certified addicts...
...against the very idea of narrative painting based on the human figure. Born in New York City in 1948, he went to the California Institute for the Arts in Valencia in 1970, just at the height of the belief, then endemic in the American art world, that "painting is dead." Cal Arts epitomized the frivolity of late-modernist art instruction -- no drawing, just do your own thing and let Teacher get on with his. Art education that has repealed its own standards can destroy a tradition by not teaching its skills, and that, broadly speaking, was what happened to figure...
...fighting, Brigadier General Ghazi Kenaan, Syria's intelligence chief in Lebanon, threatened to move in and silence the guns. "Our forces will promptly shoot at any gunman in sight," he warned. By week's end, however, the casualty count in the continuing factional feud stood at some 250 dead and more than 800 wounded, and still Syria's 7,500 troops remained poised on the sidelines...
...stop them. But I'm optimistic we can minimize their impact." Still, says Houston Beekeeper Darrell Lister: "I'm afraid we're going to have a panic when they finally arrive. Everyone will be out with a spray can, and the only good bee will be a dead...
...late Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina. His values are rooted in North Carolina's Piedmont. Monroe, whose population was 3,000 when Helms was growing up there, was profoundly conservative. Schools were segregated, and once a year flowers were placed on the graves of the Confederate war dead. Yet most townsfolk assumed that the devil was a Republican, which made it all the more shocking when Helms became the state's first G.O.P. Senator of this century...