Word: goliaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friedman was also on hand at the birth of the intifadeh, the stone-throwing rebellion by young Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Here was David vs. Goliath with a vengeance, shown nightly throughout much of the world on the evening news. But Friedman argues that the myth -- stones triumphing over might -- threatens to bury reality. Israel will not be brought down by slingshots; tanks and troops will not quash resentments. If anything is to be accomplished, a photogenic revolution must give way to hard bargaining...
...television reception, where the maids let them watch the music-video shows. Recently, the students have been tuning in to reports from China instead. George Orwell prophesied that advances in information technology would lead to Big Brother's total control. It is more likely that, as Reagan said, the "Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip...
...across as a far more diverse and interesting painter than one ever expected. His precocity and rate of absorption were equally striking, and they made room for sly humor, as in a pastiche of Caravaggio he did around 1605, when he was barely 30: David with the Head of Goliath, the David 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...
...Scates, the 6-ft. 10-in. former Georgetown University center. A 1979 graduate, he was once a mainstay of a winning team, and his hopes were pinned on making the pros. Today he is in uniform all right -- as a doorman at a downtown Washington hotel. A gentle Goliath with a cavernous bass voice and a ready smile, he wears a pith helmet and has a whistle dangling around his neck to summon cabs. "There's more to life than sports," he says. "It's a hard reality." That is a lesson that Scates, and thousands of other student athletes...
While she conceded that Harvard is usually seen as a "Goliath" in the city, O'Neill denied that the University has overwhelming clout with city officials...