Word: homed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trip was part of a periodic exchange of visits between leaders of the two nations, and the agenda concentrated on the issues that currently matter most to both countries: Iran, Zimbabwe Rhodesia, Northern Ireland, defense, energy and the threat of recession. Back home Thatcher's own popularity has suffered as inflation has climbed to 17%, with the prospect of worse to come in 1980. Nonetheless, she seems to relish the challenge, openly acknowledging that her rigorously conservative policies will not begin to take effect until...
Still, Stalin's memory is alive in his native Georgia. Last week his centenary was celebrated by thousands of Georgians who had gathered in Gori, the dictator's home town. Carrying carnations, chrysanthemums and portraits of Stalin, they danced through the streets to the music of five marching bands. Others crowded into the newly refurbished Stalin museum in Gori, or gazed reverently at his statue atop a 10-ft. pedestal in Gori's main square-one of the last remaining statues of the dictator in the Soviet Union...
...best landscapists, was bought by Texas Oilman Lamar Hunt. Despite its size (9 ft. by 5 ft.), weight (more than 500 lbs. with frame) and fame, the painting had disappeared for more than a century until it was rediscovered last June in a penny-pinched English juvenile home...
...gold in Fort Knox relocated to the Whitney Museum or some other institution, stacked up as a minimal sculpture. By then, price will have completely supplanted meaning. The Treasure and the Masterpiece will have fused, the triumph of the art boom will be achieved, and we can all creep home. - Robert Hughes
Less flamboyant than Farmer, Morris is no less intense. Before her 8:15 a.m. arrival at her Atlanta office, she puts in an hour on the telephone at home; most weeks she works six days. Her commitment to the struggle against capital punishment is a natural outgrowth of years spent in the civil rights movement with her husband John, an Episcopal, priest who works for the U.S. Health and Welfare Department. Those familiar with her work insist that she plays a unique role in the death penalty fight. Says Jack Boger, an L.D.F. staff attorney, "I wish there were someone...