Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faced with the gathering storm, the leadership of the N.R.A. is trying to shift the spotlight back to the larger problem of crime. "The whole debate over gun control is a public fraud in terms of doing anything in the world that affects violent criminals," says N.R.A. executive vice president...
As the launch date for the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission loomed during the waning days of November, NASA's veteran spin controllers did their best to lower public expectations. The seven astronauts who would ride into orbit aboard Endeavour faced the toughest assignment ever handed to a shuttle crew...
We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins, $20). In the dumps puts matters too mildly. Give or take the late Dr. Seuss, Sendak is by far our most talented artist and writer for children (Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen...
But for the many supporters of school prayer, the issue is values, not constitutionality. Last week, on a cool, cloudy morning outside Wingfield High School, a group of students gathered privately, as they do every morning shortly before school starts, to hold hands around the flagpole and intone the Lord...
We are, most of us, skeptical of the promise of a lifetime of happiness, which, to quote Shaw, "no person alive could bear...it would be hell on earth." We're familiar with the legendary tales of the anguish women in 1950's faced upon marriage, the prospect of 45...