Word: glaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotive content of the image (industry as Pandemonium) is at odds with the stolid execution. Few techniques could be less suited to depicting what is fugitive and mobile, like fire and smoke, than cutting silhouettes from roofing tar. Sultan leans toward the mummified sublime. His stage effects of glare and silhouette descend, remotely, from Turner. But he is so used to thinking in terms of figure and ground that he handles the transitions between them -- the midtones, the modulations of light -- clumsily at best...
Mitchell's stock has risen over the past year. During the Iran-contra hearings, he appeared judicious and intellectually rigorous. Under the glare of television lights, his wooden speaking style vastly improved. A Senator since 1980, Mitchell, 54, has been around long enough to have developed respect for tradition but not so long that he is inured to Senate logjams. "Tradition," he says, "ought not to be a justification for unreasonable delay and unconscionable deadlock," a sentiment that resonates loudly with the bloc of eleven freshmen Senators pushing a "quality of life" package to reform arcane Senate rules. As chairman...
Last week the government took the strongest action yet to hobble the messenger. Determined to deal firmly with the widespread protests called to mark Palestinian Land Day without the usual glare of publicity, the army banned all foreign reporters from the occupied territories for three days, except for a dozen pool reporters accompanied by the military. Said I.D.F. Spokesman Colonel Raanan Gissin: "We know the presence of the press incites and instigates the violence...
...Cain, director of the right-wing United Christian Action, as "designed to promote Marxist doctrine." But in Smith's view it was designed to promote understanding. The visitors saw a township where many of Pretoria's black workers reside in tiny four-room houses under the nighttime glare of powerful arc lights. "It gives the impression that someone is watching them day and night," said Louis Fourie, a white participant. The visitors shared their hosts' meals of cornmeal porridge and tripe. A Pretoria man shared a bed with a young black man who had once been jailed under the security...
...phrase endures, but it can only flicker like a weak flame in the glare of continued social injustice...