Word: doves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is lost when heroes vanish? Henry David Thoreau (a man who would have been at home in 1968) wrote an enigmatic throwaway line in Walden: "I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle dove, and am still on their $ trail." The words, vaguely allegorical and haunting, have something in common with Paul Simon's "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" One has only to inspect the field of presidential candidates in 1988 to feel a sense of some hero loss in the drama of American life...
Ogarkov, however, was no dove. The money saved by relying less on nuclear missiles he wanted to spend on advanced conventional weapons. He did not want those rubles diverted to the beleaguered Soviet consumer economy. He was finally demoted in September 1984. But the new chief of the general staff, Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, was also a proponent of the idea that enough is enough in nuclear weaponry...
...passing clamor of a red New York City fire truck with the numeral 5 on it. But while it has become one of the icons of American modernism, its author has remained a little elusive beside the heavier reputations of his contemporaries: Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Charles Sheeler. What Demuth needed was a retrospective to put him in ! focus, and now, in the capable hands of the art historian Barbara Haskell -- who has also done excellent shows of Dove and Hartley -- he has one, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City...
...ball was tipped all the way past the backcourt line, and freshman Carolyn Burger dove for the ball. It was just out of reach...
...that play, Reif broke away from the Crimson defenders to send a 20-yard swing shot at net. Hall dove left and cleared the ball away with one hand to send the game into overtime...