Word: formalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vesque, by contrast, is a chainsmoking, disorganized, hot-tempered bundle of emotional energy from one of Quebec's poorest farming regions. His manner is shy and self-deprecating. While Trudeau's speeches are structured and formal, Lévesque's are extemporaneous, meandering marvels that somehow manage to reduce complex abstractions to simple?often too simple?terms. He is extraordinarily popular with his constituents; polls show that Lévesque would be overwhelmingly re-elected today...
...warning signals were flashing last week as Congress prepared to take up the Carter Administration's wide-ranging proposals for keeping the economy humming through the coming fiscal year. Congressional critics have begun to snipe at the President's tax program, even before they get their first formal briefing on the proposals this week from Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal. The package calls for $34 billion in tax cuts, reduced to $25 billion net by about $9 billion in new revenue-raising reforms. The legislators are delighted, even eager, to vote for tax reductions in this election year...
...talks have proceeded at a snail's pace-mostly as a result of U.S. preoccupation with Watergate, the Viet Nam pullout and the 1976 presidential elections. Last week the negotiations entered a new and decisive phase, when the U.S. followed Japan and the European Community in presenting its formal negotiating offer. Now that the Big Three have spoken, hard bargaining can begin, and participants have set themselves a July deadline for completion of the talks. Final written agreements would be signed by year...
...season of merrymaking, mischiefing and fair-maidening begun by medieval Catholics who wanted to say a hearty "farewell to the flesh" (carne vale) before starting the Lenten regimen of fasting and penance on Ash Wednesday. In Munich, the capital of Fasching, the farewell involves a series of masquerades, formal balls and street parades, which lead to, among other effects, an increase in illegitimate births every autumn. Fasching also breeds business. Hotels are sold out; consumption of champagne, caviar and Munich's famous Weisswurst triples. Following a record season in 1977, Munich promoters looked forward to an even better...
...expected social roles. But it smacks of artificiality to confine either Dada or surrealism too closely to any group or period. Some of Picasso's paintings, from 1913 onward, are regarded as major surrealist icons by virtue of their aggressive, oneiric distortions, though he was never in any formal way a member of the movement...