Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assemblage of near life-size figures around a manger scene representing Christ's birth. The display included painted representations of Joseph and Mary, the gift-bearing Magi, two angels and assorted animals-20 pieces in all. It would have been wholly unremarkable, similar to thousands of others, except for one thing: this particular Nativity scene was reappearing in the festival after an enforced and highly controversial absence of eleven years, the hostage in a legal dispute involving the constitutional separation of church and state...
FREEZES. Beneficiaries of virtually all Government programs except Social Security that are indexed to the inflation rate would lose their 1986 cost of living adjustment (COLA). Those who would be affected include 2.6 million federal retirees and their dependents, who belong to the Government's military and civil service pension plans. Likewise, the 21.5 million recipients of food stamps, as well as smaller benefit programs like aid to black-lung sufferers, would lose their protection against inflation for a year. The saving generated by this one-year "pause" in COLA growth compounded through 1988 would total $13.2 billion...
...more recent years, except for occasional forays into furniture, architects have tended to confine their visions to larger structures. Their buildings, however, may be the very reason for the new venture in accouterments. R. Craig Miller, the Metropolitan's 20th century design associate curator, suggests that the architects are prompted by "a need for new furnishings to make postmodern interiors complete...
Bruce Springsteen: Shut Out the Light (Columbia). This single song is under four minutes long but packs a punch stronger than most albums. His Born in the U.S.A., released in May, not only has no serious competition for album of the year (except maybe Prince's Purple Rain), it marked Springsteen's breakthrough to a wider audience. Newcomers should be tipped off to some information well known to fans of long standing: it pays to buy the single versions of the album's hits because stashed away on the flip sides are entirely new songs unavailable elsewhere...
...Nesson: Except "jostled and bumped" sounds very benign. It's what happens when we walk out into the street. And the libel plaintiffs view is, "I didn't get jostled. I didn't get bumped. I got decked. I got malevolently knocked out. (laughter) And I want to prove...