Word: glaringly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COUNCIL DIDN'T hold up very well in the glare of public attention. The pettiness of the student government's quarreling became clear, and grand philosophical debate began to reveal itself as a power play by disgruntled council members...
Most landmark laws are signed in the Oval Office amid great hoopla, by a beaming President surrounded by self-promoting politicians grinning in the glare of television lights. But when Ronald Reagan penned his name on the Gramm-Rudman Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Reduction Control Act of 1985 last week, he did so without ceremony or cameras...
...sense of culture they try to construct withers in the red glare of National Socialism. After 1933 their story becomes a lugubrious tale of giants in exile (Oskar Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters, Max Beckmann), of ruined hope, lopped lives and rampant state philistinism. By 1945 there is no life left in the expressionist impulse, at least in Germany; it can only be reborn in America as abstraction, and then re-exported to exhausted Europe. By 1955 figurative expressionism is a dodo--shot by Hitler, eaten by art history, its bones a museum specimen. Thus spake, until lately, the scenario...
BEFORE TENS OF MILLIONS of viewers, the nominees for what is arguably the world's most powerful office bask in the penetrating glare of studio lights, and the most telegenic candidate wins the day. The debates have proven to be more of a screen test than a test of the contenders' ideas and qualifications. The candidate who delivers the best performance lands the leading role...
...from Viet Nam. A year later, in another secret mission for Kissinger, he took part in the preparations for Richard Nixon's historic opening to China. As an Ambassador-at-Large for the Reagan Administration, Walters has visited 108 countries. Many of these tasks were performed far from the glare of publicity. Last February, when the President named him to the highly visible post of U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Walters took on a job that represented a considerable change of pace...