Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denim jacket hangs from one shelf, and a few feet below it hangs a new white T shirt with green lettering that proclaims NOT BY A DAM SITE. A middle-aged woman with a hesitant voice and bright blue eyes is speaking: "I'm sure there are Indian graves around here. It would close down APCO's whole operation if we find an Indian grave...
Before the Chinese action, Viet Nam's Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh had denounced what he described as "feverish war preparations" by Peking, including the massing of 20 divisions along the frontier. Trinh also called on the United Nations to "examine the grave situation" and move to defuse it. The Soviet Union entered the rhetorical fray by warning Peking not to "overstep the forbidden line" in its quarrel with Hanoi...
What that line is remains unclear, and how Moscow might respond if it is crossed remains perhaps the most troublesome question of all. Australia's Foreign Minister, Andrew Peacock, for one, fretted last week that if the Indochina squabble got much hotter and broader there "would be grave implications for both the region and beyond...
...supported on pebbles, by Michael Singer. Its ancestor is Giacometti's famous surrealist construction of the 1930s, The Palace at 4 a.m.−there is a similar feeling of spindliness, fragility and, isolated in its museum cell, of mystery. Though it suggests other cultures (bamboo lattices, fish traps, grave-marker posts), it does not do so in a sloppy, metaphorical way. At 33, Singer is clearly an artist worth watching...
That is now a concern at least as grave as inflation. Even with the protesting farmers making trouble in Washington these past few days, and the biggest snowstorm in five years diverting the capital's attention, the debate about U.S. strength and resolve is emerging on almost every level...