Word: depths
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...Ninth Directorate, which delegated tasks to the Defense Ministry. A KGB officer who claimed to have taken part in constructing the Ramenki bunker described it to a Soviet newspaper last year as an underground city about 500 acres in size, built at several levels ranging in depth from 230 ft. to 395 ft. He said the bunker was begun in the second half of the 1960s and completed by the mid-'70s, could shelter as many as 120,000 people, and included food supplies that could last up to 30 years. Quarters for top leaders were comfortably appointed, and movie...
...want to get a good Harvard news program going--sort of a MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour type thing," said Phillips. The program would outline the top news headlines of the day and examine one of those stories in depth, she said...
...care whether they live or die. They are infuriated by talk of "innocent" victims of the disease, with its implication that gay victims are all guilty and deserve their fate. They are enraged that ostensibly sympathetic heterosexuals, including their own families, may voice concern but fail to grasp the depth of the emotional exhaustion, isolation and sense of loss. And many gay men, even when they test negative for the disease and meticulously avoid behavior thought likely to transmit it, live with a constant sense of doom, an anguishing irrational certainty that this virus will someday, somehow, come...
hooks maintains that these symbols lack any real depth of their own because their worth is calculated only in relation to a dominant culture. Her discussion of the ads extends into a critique of the way Blacks and whites in everyday life accept and promote these exoticized conceptions of Blacks...
What he has brought to the Metropolitan amounts to a portrait of a company embarking on a cultural shift. Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov are first-rate productions that offer what opera lovers want to hear: Russian classics performed with great depth of detail -- in orchestration, diction and idiomatic style. The Kirov embodies the Russian tradition of opera, which is very different from the Western one. As the maestro says, "The chorus and the orchestra are the hero. The chorus is < stronger than any star, and it must be a single personality divided into...