Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Already, Boston has seen the removal of one shoe advertisement that shows a dead woman next to a pair of shoes. The caption reads "We killed for these." Similarly, some television stations have been convinced to set up a board that screens advertisements for sexism...
Commentators began to speculate on whether Reagan was a lame duck or a "dead duck." The question echoed through the press: Will Reagan manage to preserve his power as a lame duck President against a Democratic Congress...
...what better place for a messy game than Meehan, with its bad ice, slow boards and dead crowd. Worse than the sparse attendance, though, is the sound-deadening quality of the cavernous concrete structure, which this year celebrates its 25th year of marring the Harvard schedule...
...rest of the building, natural light is Aulenti's main subject. Her use of it reaches its peak of tact and skill in the galleries for impressionism and postimpressionism at the top of the museum, fitted into the dead space between facade and vault. This parade of rooms, with its 30 or so Van Goghs, its nearly 40 Cezannes, its Monets and Manets and Renoirs, its superb array of Degas bronzes, is bound to be the popular core of the museum, and Aulenti was right to put it up high, closest to the light. "Light is impressionism," she says...
...acorns from under the snow and baked them into a sort of bread. A party official complained, "Look at the parasites! They went digging for acorns in the snow with their bare hands -- they'll do anything to get out of working." Villages became ghost towns, with families lying dead in every house. Conquest reckons that the final death toll from the entire war against the peasants was 14.5 million souls...