Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispensation. A dream house has been a vision at the core of American hopes, a tender blend of expectation and nostalgia. It derives its imagery from the historical spaciousness of the land (God's country, after all, his bounteous land grant, the interminable individualist homestead unfolding toward the horizon) and the simultaneous need for shelter that its harshness imposed. A people so socially and geographically mobile used housing as an instrument to trumpet their wherewithal, their substance, their civic presence. They have sometimes nearly impoverished themselves to anchor their identities in their homes. In a 1920 magazine serial called...
...tour d'horizon, Haig is expected to recite the Administration's now familiar bill of particulars about Soviet misbehavior. High on the list are the continuing arms buildup that threatens to upset the global military balance; Soviet support for terrorism through Libya, Cuba and the Palestine Liberation Organization; the continued occupation of Afghanistan; and Soviet intervention in such Third World nations as Angola, Ethiopia, South Yemen and Cambodia...
...Wenhe and others were arrested in March 1979, the event was followed closely by the Chinese and foreign press. Why this concern about the fate of a few ordinary Chinese citizens? It is because the arrests had created a cold March wind that was blowing across the Chinese political horizon...
...take sacrifice and patience by all Americans to set the economy right, Reagan has steadily underplayed the pain involved. During last year's presidential campaign, he pledged that strong growth, less unemployment, lower inflation and a restoration of American military might were all just over his supply-side horizon...
Beyond Sophie? There is a film on the horizon about Karen Silkwood, an antinuclear activist who was mysteriously killed in an auto crash while working on an exposé in 1974. And afterward? It is a little startling to realize that Meryl Streep has appeared in only one Broadway show (Happy End in 1977). Another Broadway musical? A filmed musical? Some really alarming risk-taking on one of Joe Papp's stages? Say her friend Papp: "I'm convinced we haven't yet begun to see the richness of her talent." In fact, says this cheerfully biased stage director, "in films?...