Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the criterion for selecting the Man of the Year is based on the impact an individual has on the year's news events, good or bad, I nominate John Hinckley Jr. He showed how our judicial process allows a guilty person to be found not guilty. BillKlingJr. Huntsville...
...while Hitler ranted about "the final solution," Richter sketched feverishly, then finished the work later in his studio. The artist died in 1948, and it was only recently that his estate came to an agreement with the Berlin Museum. The wait has not diminished the painting's unsettling impact. Says Museum Director Rolf Bothe: "The artist tried to show a man who provokes fear, and he succeeded. Seeing this picture, I am afraid." Merely for having painted it, so was the artist...
...simply counting the number of pieces left on the board is not all there is to the game; nuclear war is a lot messier than that. Though experts debate the precise environmental impact of numerous nuclear explosions (a first strike would require thousands), they are certain of at least two potentially catastrophic effects. The ozone layer, which protects the Earth from lethal ultraviolet radiation, will disintegrate, and vast quantities of deadly radioactive fallout will scatter throughout the atmosphere. The original argument against nuclear war still applies to Soviet strategists. No attacker, no matter how formidable his arsenal, can feel secure...
...white tunic, smiling and nodding at some 25 adoring followers, any doubts as to the feasibility of staging a gospel-inspired rock opera at a predominantly blow-dried university become moot. The illusion of Deeper Meaning holds. And in a show which draws about a third of its emotional impact from that illusion and another third from the power of an extraordinarily rich score, such a visual bonus is no small gain...
...have consequences. Bogart thinks it wrong for newspapers, particularly declining ones, to copy television's emphasis on personalities and features, to cut news items to car-radio brevity, or to favor routine "chicken dinner" local coverage. Major stories of national and international importance, he argues, have most impact on newspaper readers...