Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wurman's prescriptions are sound enough: be a good listener, be a contrarian, avoid gratuitous precision, avoid cliches. He also makes some more or less fresh points: that all information is inherently selective and subjective, and that the mind is not an ultra-complicated computer but a place full of unprogrammable and meaningful lapses, quirks and non sequiturs. Yet as he approvingly predicts the proliferation of directories of directories and a new Secretary of Understanding in the Cabinet, Wurman seems to be suffering from Information Giddiness...
Although there are a large variety of restaurants along the peninsula, most of them have large seafood menus and provide fish, lobster, mussels, clams--and whatever else you might imagine--fresh everyday. The eating places closer into town promise a quiet atmosphere and nicely prepared dishes...
...said fine, but next year when we start fresh, we're going to upset the applecart, and we're going to insist on Cambridge's inclusion," Barrett said...
...Washington headquarters, rejected the scheme out of hand. "Wrong thing to do," said Baker, who immediately ordered a more welcoming response. Telegraphing a willingness to consider the F.M.L.N.'s proposal had a twofold purpose: first, to let U.S. Latin allies know that the Bush Administration is taking a fresh look at Central America. Second, to signal to congressional opponents of the Reagan policy that Bush will consider any new option, no matter the origin. "Getting the edge, in Central America especially," says Baker, "requires a bipartisan approach, and that requires our maintaining the moral high ground. Nothing is going...
MILT JACKSON: BEBOP (East-West). The Modern Jazz Quartet's eminent vibes man dives deep into the bop era, working fresh wonders on eight vintage tunes, mostly by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. If Bird lives in Clint Eastwood's recent film biography, he gets a neat new lease on life here...