Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grenouille doesn't just detect scents--he digests them, dissects them, and then preserves the essence of their individual components in the redolent storehouse of his mind. And whether smells are fresh and sweet or spoiled and foul, Grenouille devours them all with equal delight...
Still, for many the distinction between highbrow and low rent are increasingly arbitrary. "What we are beginning to see now is that people on both sides are taking with equal seriousness someone like a David Byrne," notes David White, executive director of Dance Theater Workshop, a favorite showcase for avant-garde choreographers in downtown Manhattan. Nor are there firm boundaries delimiting art forms anymore. Wilson, Glass and the others collaborate often, particularly in the realm of musical theater (and, by extension, film), which has become the avant-garde art form of choice. "There has been a general move toward...
...council has been elected. As usual, only half of students voted in the election and voters in several houses found ballots with a number of candidates equal to or just slightly greater than the number of seats available. The council has elected new officers, all of whom mouth platforms of new concern for student issues. These issues are important but what is more important than any of them individually is the issue of the council itself. In its four-year history, the organization has yet to garner any real respect from the administration, students or--judging from last year...
...second amendment by Leahy (D-Vt.) and Cohen (R-Maine) was passed and signed earlier this month. It requires that within three years the U.S. and Soviet U.N. missions be roughly equal...
...behavior hardly satisfies the requirements of fairness. The new committee should have authority to make findings of fact about charges brought against faculty, staff and administrators and at least to recommend appropriate disciplinary actions. Only by making all members of the community subject to scrutiny will all be afforded equal respect...