Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come a long way," said Eileen Pratt, the other co-captain. "Throughout the season, after each invitational, we found problems and we tried to fix these problems during the following week...
...done more to eat away everyone's leisure time than any other factor. If both mother and father are working to make ends meet, as is the case in 57% of U.S. families, someone still has to find the time to make lunches and pediatrician appointments, shop, cook, fix the washer, do the laundry, take the children to choir practice. Single-parent households are squeezed even more...
...formal exercises is to underrate them. Malevich thought of his black square and its cousins -- the white-on-white geometries, the crisp arrangements of colored planes floating in space as deep as the sky -- as icons, points of entry into a superior spiritual world. Their vividness, their power to fix one's attention, is also the vividness of the staring eyes of a pantocrator...
...Italian avant-garde before World War I, where this show begins, found itself in a fix under the immense shadow of its own cultural history. Either it made a diverting Oedipal commotion about the loathsome oppressiveness of the past, like the futurists, or immersed itself in poignant reveries about its authoritarian and alienating beauty, like Giorgio de Chirico and his associates in metaphysical painting...
...basketball fans across the country fix their eyes on the NCAA tournament this week, TIME shows how the national obsession with winning and moneymaking is turning big-time college sports into an academic scandal that for too many players leads down a one-way path to broken dreams. -- A look at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, a basketball powerhouse in the heart of America's gambling capital...