Word: effects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...titanic ancestor of surrealism. "It is when Goya abandons himself to his capacity for fantasy that he is most admirable," wrote Theophile Gautier in 1842. "No one can equal him in making black clouds, filled with vampires and demons, rolling in the warm atmosphere of a stormy night." The effect of this has been to pluck Goya...
...money game, or more precisely the lack-of-money game, began its long and intricate course in earnest last week. There were direct signals, mixed signals, contradictory signals -- something for everybody. The central point, however, was unambiguous. A debate rages over the exact effect monumental federal deficits have on the nation's economic health and its role as a world leader. But the President left no doubt that he disdains those who claim that deficits do not matter. If asked, Bush would undoubtedly agree with the assessment of Alice Rivlin, a former head of the Congressional Budget Office. "The budget...
...rents amount to an average increase of 6 percent and will take effect July 1, said HRE Vice President Nancy E. Kossan...
...always seem able to move the ball at game's end. Increasingly, he has had the Bengals operating in a hurry-up mode from the start, dispensing with huddles, relying on sinister (defined: left-handed) quarterback Norman ("Boomer") Esiason to communicate the plans aloud in a complicated tongue. The effect has been to freeze the other team's situation specialists on the sidelines or create a confusion of too many men on the field...
Jackson's career ("a retrospective of 24 years of hits"), Moonwalker includes some nifty clay and cutout animation, as well as a "centerpiece" spun out around Michael's superbly spooky song Smooth Criminal. Jackson becomes, literally, what so many people have already accused him of being: a special effect. All of Moonwalker is heavily shrouded in fantasy -- of persecution, of reprisal, of reclaiming lost innocence -- but compromised by its own willful and slightly desperate flash...