Word: gores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gore Vidal...
...Gore Vidal's novels, plays and essays can be divided roughly into three areas of animosity. The first is the author's belief that Western civilization erred when it abandoned pagan humanism for the stern, heterosexual authority of the Judaeo-Christian patriarchy. See Julian, his 1964 novel about the apostate nephew of Constantino the Great. The second area that draws Vidal's scorn is American politics, which he dramatizes as a circus of opportunism and hypocrisy. See The Best Man; Washington, D.C.; Burr. The most freewheeling disdain is directed at popular culture, macho sexuality and social pretensions...
...four years instead of the previously planned 10. Spurred by the decline in interest rates and the growing feeling that the structures were in a dangerously dire condition, officials elected to tackle five buildings this spring and summer: Adams House, Claverly Hall, Old Leverett. Old Quincy and the Gore half of Winthrop House. Next summer, officials expect to tackle Dunster. Kirkland and Eliot Houses. In 1985 the projected $50 million endeavor will wind down with repairs in North and South Houses, the two other aging, brick upperclass dormitories...
...cases that went to the jury. In 1977 Bobb drew "what we call a heater - a hot first-degree murder that produced a two-month trial and lots of publicity." Lapsing into the trial lawyer's habit of assessing courtroom opportunity, she recalls, "It had every thing, blood, gore, sex, kinky stuff. It was a great case." Working with two other prosecutors, Bobb nailed the defendants; each got a 100-to 200-year sentence...
...policy (see RELIGION). And earlier in the week, three U.S. Senators, including Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia, sent the President a letter warning of their potential opposition to deployment of the controversial MX missile. A similar message came from nine members of the House, who were led by Albert Gore of Tennessee. The price of their acquiescence, the Congressmen wrote, was a more flexible U.S. approach to the strategic-arms talks going on in Geneva. If the White House bows to the Congressmen's demand, there could be far more changes in U.S. nuclear policy than resulted from those...