Word: flux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though almost everything else about Middle East diplomacy appears to be in flux, one lodestar remains fixed: April 26, the day on which Israel, under terms of the Camp David accords, is scheduled to return the final third of the Sinai Peninsula to Egyptian control. The Israeli withdrawal is vital to the Camp David peace process, to the Egyptian government of President Hosni Mubarak and to the maintenance of peace in the Middle East...
...past ten years have proved a weird time for architecture, and weirder still for its public. In America, vast numbers of new buildings go up. Whole avenues seem to rise overnight, like sprouting plants in a time-lapse movie; status, constantly in flux, is one big slide area. With the action, there goes an equal ferment of fashion and criticism. Classical modernism is defended as archaeology and derided as a failed Utopia. In its place, though more visible on the drawing boards than the streets, there is something some observers have conveniently named "post-modernism." But is that a movement...
...instance: "My neighborhood's not there any more. It's underground; it's bricks." Wealthier areas of the city decay and change less rapidly, but even the center of Manhattan is a mobile of concrete, stone and steel. The camera's lens fixes the flux. When the eye behind it is guided with sufficient knowledge, a magical transformation can happen: a permanent image supersedes its transient subject. It is hard to put a value on such an event, although $6 seems a little low. What George Forss is selling on the sidewalks is slices...
...uses of two neighboring properties. Parcel lB and the DiGiovanni parking lot-- which will become major office-housing complexes with some retail stores--helped the "position of the (Mt. Auburn St. apartment building) become more clear....In the past, that area has always been in a state of flux," she said
...sacred, significant and hopeful creation of God, and advocated human rights and economic justice for the poor. As a priestly catalyst he has changed the internal politics of his homeland, Communist Poland. Within the Roman Catholic Church he has striven dramatically to end the era of flux, confusion and experimentation that followed the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. He is also ebulliently engaged in transforming the image, and even the function, of the venerable office that he holds. At 61 this week, he is still young for a reigning Pope. He has the physique of a former quarryman, chemical...