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...there is displacement of the meaning, there is, equally significant, placement of the word-orientations that startle, disturb, and ultimately succeed. Especially in the ritual and unbroken naming of objects, one sees the interstices between the words, the region of resolution...
...loan-guarantee program, there is a surprising dearth of support for it among small, independent businesses. The National Federation of Independent Business found in a survey of its 500,000 members that roughly two-thirds would not be at all perturbed by the shuttering of the SBA. What does disturb a legion of briefcase-toting executives, though, is the proposed end of Government subsidies for Amtrak, the national passenger railroad (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...site northwest of Las Vegas covers part of Nellis Air Force Base, the Nevada nuclear-weapons test area and a Bureau of Land Management tract. A volcanic-rock formation 1,500 ft. below the surface would house the waste. Opponents believe that nuclear blasts at the test range could disturb the buried materials. Robert Revert, who owns gas stations in Beatty, estimates that 90% of local residents favor the dump. Says he: "Our young people are out of work. Maybe we could turn this around with Yucca Mountain...
...they started right off with a metaphor in search of a meaning. Least Heat Moon's informative but overly journalistic commentary describes the origin of the sofa project in an unused college swimming pool, revealing in a reverent tone that the photographers initially envisioned suing the Red Couch "to disturb the commonplace into something new, and then photograph the results." The presence of the sofa in every picture imposes self-consciousness on the photos, becoming a big red photographic sic; even the most naturalistic portraits of Americans on the couch seem deliberately contrived artistic statements. The sofa, whether positioned...
Fearing that the tragic news might spark street demonstrations and clashes with police, church leaders and Solidarity activists appealed for calm. During his weekly audience at the Vatican, Pope John Paul II urged his countrymen not to disturb "the great moral eloquence of this death." Former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa asked Poles to observe "the silence of mourning." Said he: "They wanted to kill, and they killed not only a man, not only a Pole, not only a priest. They wanted to kill the hope that it is possible in Poland to avoid violence in political life...