Word: importance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dirks, Pearl Harbor's import didn't hit until the men started disappearing. "I was pretty stupid about the war," says Dirks. "Pearl Harbor didn't register for a while. I was going to a Law School dance that night. And then suddenly it registered, because the place was devoid of men, and some of them were dying...
Even then, Dirks says, the full import of the war didn't hit her. "It was still a bit of an ivory tower. You're there, and you're protected, and war is just one of those terrible things that happened thousands of miles away," she says. "We picked apples for the farmers and thought we were doing a lot for the war. Some of us knitted--not me, certainly...
...sculptural mass that is nevertheless modeled in a wholly traditional way on an armature, and never welded. It's true that Giacometti tended increasingly to think of sculpture as a means of connecting points in space, rather than of setting volume imposingly before the eye, but the effort to import him into the story of linear iron sculpture is unconvincing...
Johnson's taped material is also political an import, from a radio broadcost of a lecture by I. E. Stone, and unlike Daugherty, Johnson actually incorporates the pitch of the spoken words into his work. We little realize the extent to which out ordinary speech is musical; the rising pitch of an interrogative and the codence of a declarative can be quantified and made into song simply through appropriate accompaniment Johnson does this beatuifully...
...marching troops, no calls for strikes or demonstrations. Nevertheless, another hour of truth had come for Boris Yeltsin. Instead of climbing on top of a tank and shaking his fist, he looked into television cameras and spoke in measured tones for 25 minutes. There was no mistaking the import of his words. He was taking the heady, reckless gamble of plunging Russia into a struggle for power as fateful as the one begun by the earlier coup attempt -- and probably even more chaotic...