Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read, the poems become richer and richer. Associations are drawn behind the images, and stories begin to emerge. Sometimes there is only a hint of that story. One poem is about the old movie "Titanic," most of it describing a family watching the movie, laughing at the film's melodrama. Then the poem ends with the narrator sensing a leak in the house, a crack that "is slowly widening to claim each of us in random order, and we start to rock in one another's arms...
...whole other ball of wax." Under the Florida plan, schools would get grades based on composite standardized test scores, and the state would give vouchers worth up to $4,000 to enable students at the F schools to go elsewhere. The arguments are fairly clearly drawn: Those in favor, who tend to be Republicans, say the system would introduce competition that will force inefficient schools to improve or close down; opponents say it means taxpayers will now be funding religious schools. For their part, teachers' unions are against anything that would dilute their power (nongovernment schools tend to be less...
After a leadoff triple by DeYoung in the bottomof the eighth, Merten punched a game-winningsingle through the right side of a drawn-ininfield, breaking a 3-3 tie that had lasted sincethe top of the third and giving Brown...
...political mainstream, and so did Hayes. By the time he was 35, he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to head the Solar Energy Research Institute in Colorado, and clean power became his passion. After finding the time to finish his law degree at Stanford in 1985, Hayes was drawn back onto the environmental front lines by groups looking forward to the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day. The threat of global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels had thrust the environment back into the headlines, and it was time to make Earth Day 1990 a global...
...piece of the concert was Martin's "Memorial to Lidice." Written in dedication to the town of Lidice near Prague, the atrocities recounted in Martin's short eight minute tribute point to an event that was, as stated by the program notes, the "sharpest and most damning description ever drawn of the nature of Nazism." The town's crime: supposed involvement in the killing of SS Upper Group Leader Reinhard Heydrich. Their punishment: "all male citizens of the town were shot...The township was leveled to the ground and the name of the community extinguished." Blacklisted by the Nazis Martin...