Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gromyko flies to Warsaw on the eve of a crucial congress...
...nominations to boards that run the six Southern Baptist seminaries. Smith, like his predecessor, is a scriptural hard-liner who believes the Bible is "in-errant," free of errors in all matters spiritual and historical. Inerrantists believe, for example, that a whale actually swallowed Jonah and that Adam and Eve were individuals, not symbols. That is the faith of most grass-roots Southern Baptists but not necessarily of the seminary professors, many of whom interpret the Bible somewhat less rigidly. For three years hard-liners have been plotting to dominate the denomination...
...brave because she plays a woman on the shady side of 50 who hides neither her wrinkles nor the temperamental manipulativeness so common among aging stars; flashy because, besides singing and dancing, she trades in high-gloss show-biz bitchery that sometimes approaches the level of All About Eve; riveting because she shows a touching vulnerability about her professional and personal insecurities (she is torching for her ex-husband, played by James Garner). Bacall may or may not be playing Bacall, but who cares? She is obviously a very knowing lady, and there is at least an illusion of depth...
...century, which progress from primers designed to teach reading by the use of phonics to literary anthologies of great poetry and prose-often heroic or uplifting excerpts. Instead of sentences like "See Spot run," special first-grade texts use Christian lessons to teach reading: "Adam was the first father. Eve was the first mother." Two plus two will always equal four, says a math lesson, just as "Thou shalt not kill" will always mean thou shalt not kill. In high school economics, students are taught the need to return to the gold standard-on biblical authority. (To buttress their policy...
...sport: "I am the straw that stirs the drink. It all comes back to me." Chrysler Chief Lee lacocca recalls what happened to him while he was rising in the busi ness world: "I got pretty damn good." Chicago Realty Mogut Evangeline Gouletas awards herself an ovation on the eve of marrying Governor Hugh Carey of New York: "In Chicago, they love me. In Chicago, I am already First Lady." Novelist Gore Vidal confides why the New York Times published a favorable review of his new book Creation: "They're desperate for me to write for them...