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Word: helling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostage to every crank, ideologue and God botherer in America. A grant for an exhibition of Gothic ivories could be pulled on the grounds that the material was offensive to Jews (much medieval art is anti-Semitic), to Muslims (what about those scenes of false prophets in hell with Muhammad?) or, for that matter, to atheists offended by the intrusion of religious propaganda into a museum. A radical feminist could plausibly argue that her "nonreligious" beliefs were offended by the sexism of Rubens' nudes or Picasso's Vollard Suite. Doubtless a fire worshiper could claim that the presence of extinguishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Loony Parody of Cultural Democracy | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...American city. He has heard it called everything from "an ecological smear" to a "behavioral sink." The future, he has been told, is elsewhere: in the suburbs, the country, anywhere but the city. Nonsense, says Whyte. "The core of the city has held. It has not gone to hell." What is more, he argues, "the city remains a magnificent place to do business, and that is part of the rediscovery of the center. While we are losing a lot of functions that we used to enjoy, we are intensifying the most important function of all -- a place for coming together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busy Streets | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...nothing new about Don Giovanni. There have been so many changes in plot and character that Giovanni is no longer Mozart's defiant hero but a quite different and less interesting character of Sellars' creation. In the intensely dramatic finale, for example, he is not dragged unrepentant to hell by the statue of the man he murdered but rather led there, while groveling in his underwear, by a young girl in what looks like a Communion dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Camping Up of Mozart Or, Yo, Don Giovanni is one bad dude | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...first time is hell," says Eugene Lye of the reviews. "But everyone is pretty much used to it now. No one here slept last night...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Living the Life of an Architecture Student | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

...hell wasn't I a Chemistry major? I've already done the research...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: It's Time for the T-Thing | 8/1/1989 | See Source »

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