Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Havel's play often blurs the line between fantasy and reality, weaving back and forth in time as it tells the story of the frustrated "social scientist" Dr. Eduard Huml and the women in his life. As Huml's relationships with his wife, mistress and secretary spin out of control, so does the play. Three scientists with a hypersensitive talking machine named "Puzuk" take over Huml's home to perform their nebulous experiment...
...only intermittently to protect the ancient ink and paper, while skilled docents use working models to repeat Leonardo's experiments. At nearby computer terminals, museumgoers view digitized images of the manuscript close up, reading English translations alongside Leonardo's Italian, zeroing in on specific drawings and flipping back and forth between the master's idiosyncratic mirror-image writing and ordinary script. (The left-handed Leonardo wrote backward for comfort--not, as myth has it, for protection against prying eyes...
...hand, everyone wants to make it clear that emeriti are still part of the community and that their contributions are valued," said Theda Skocpol, professor of government and of sociology. "At the same time, we want to make sure that departments and programs can call forth the leadership of younger faculty...
Ironically, experiencing Red House Painters in concert brings forth a similar, lurking cynicism; we find ourselves displaced from our idyllic, bedroom shanties and suddenly somewhat ashamed that we had ever allowed ourselves to be seduced by Kozelek's silver tongue. What was once treasured, inebriating music became imbamboozlably sobering and trite, simply by the fact that the room wasn't dark enough to hide the nearest person from collapsing the walls of our heretofore self-fulfilling fantasy. This was the bitterness part: growing...
Meanwhile, Bill Clinton ran on his strong economic record, his resistance to Republican extremism and his proposals for reform. Voters re-elected him in a tremendous electoral landslide and a comfortable eight-point margin over Bob Dole. Bill Clinton's victory was not hollow. He put forth bold proposals, especially in the area of education. President Clinton wants to guarantee that every American student will be able to afford college, and his plan of tax breaks and deductions will help to achieve that goal. Hopefully, over the next two years, Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott will be able...