Word: dilemmas
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...Picassian energy is still there, masquerading as inspiration, but too often it ends as a form of visual conjuring. Was he growing bored with his own virtuosity? Impossible to know. Since anything could be converted into a Picasso, and into a Picasso, and thence into gold, he suffered the dilemma of Midas twice over. This was the inevitable result of the fame he enjoyed in the last quarter-century of his life, a fame such as no artist in history had known. It could only have been created by the pressures of the 20th century, with its mass magazines...
...Congress that probably will have to face the dilemma, since it controls the money that the acceptance of large numbers of refugees entails. By one official estimate, each thousand refugees will cost the U.S. $5 million in welfare and health aid, $2 million in food stamps and another $2 million for transportation. The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled hearings on the refugee problem this week...
...hissing. The result, as anybody who has ever traveled to the planet Kashyyyk knows, is pure Wookie. For Darth Vader, Lucas wanted a sinister sound. Burtt put a tiny microphone inside a scuba tank regulator and found what Lucas wanted: the sound of labored, but mechanical breathing. "The biggest dilemma," he says, "is always to create a sound which sounds familiar and has an association with reality but yet is not identifiable...
...Commerce Department. It reported that its index of leading economic indicators, which predicts future economic movements, plunged 2.6% in March. That was the largest one-month drop since the 1974-75 recession. Anti-Inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn, with his characteristic candor, said last week: "The country now faces the dilemma we have so long feared, the twin ugly evils of accelerating inflation and the long-predicted recession...
...running in what he has called a "crazy" year, one in which the Democrats and Republicans seem about to nominate candidates so unpopular that more than half the potential voters have been telling pollsters they wish there were another choice. In his announcement press conference, Anderson neatly capsulized their dilemma by calling Jimmy Carter a President who "has demonstrated a total inability to chart a clear, common-sense policy," and Ronald Reagan a candidate who seems "largely wedded to the past...