Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOMEWHERE in Texas, perhaps Fort Worth, there is a 22-year-old ultra-conservative being held hostage by a family of liberal fanatics...
Meanwhile, part of a battalion of U.S. troops from Fort Ord, Calif., began arriving at Howard Air Force Base, near Panama City. They will be joined by other light-infantry units from Fort Polk, La., and Marine assault troops from Camp Lejeune, N.C. Also transported into Panama will be some 200 support vehicles, including armored personnel carriers and mortar carriers. At the same time, hundreds of military dependents in Panama evacuated their homes and moved to the safety of the ten U.S. military bases that bestride the 50-mile- long Panama Canal...
...This place is nice from what I've seen. I talked to some Panamanians last night, and I doubt if they'll have to use us," said Army Pfc. Michael Grant of the 5th Division from Fort Polk...
...have room for more carriers. Next week voters in Denver will decide whether to fund the initial $2.3 billion for a new airport. It is the only major airport on U.S. drawing boards at the moment and, if approved, would be the country's first new one since Dallas-Fort Worth was completed...
...sporting a raffishly theatrical feather in his cap as he tilts the severed head like a connoisseur quizzing a sculptor. Some of his key paintings, such as the Prado's extraordinary Atalanta and Hippomenes, in which he achieved a grand synthesis of Caravaggism and classical diction, are missing from Fort Worth. But it is quite clear from a work like Joseph and Potiphar's Wife that Reni could endow human figures with a Caravaggio-like density and passion while pointing the way for a classicism still to come. The figure of Joseph, moving away in its sandals and serene quadrant...