Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Clark had been pressed upon Haig by the Reagan circle, the two developed a solid relationship. Haig, while ever anxious to protect his own turf, has even shown some deference to his recent subordinate. Officials calling on Clark get an instant reminder of why such protocol is prudent. The first ornament striking a visitor's eye is a large photograph dating from 1968 of three smiling men on horseback: Clark, his father and Ronald Reagan...
...name could be inserted in the slots of the menu board and photographed in no time at all. Though news was prestigious, sports made the big profits ($10 million for CBS on Super Bowl XVI) and got the big budgets. Out of sports' costly innovativeness have come instant replay, slow motion, the isolated camera, the reverse-action camera, stop action-devices that news broadcasts put to vivid use in covering the assassination attempts on President Reagan and the Pope...
...patients' accounts. All recalled a sense of timelessness, an awareness of their own deaths, and a strong sense of reality. (It was "realer than here," said one man.) Patients remembered an absence of physical pain, a feeling of tranquillity and even delight ("That was the most beautiful instant in the whole world when I came out of that body...
...After considerable soul searching, the commission formally accepted the design. But amid much public criticism of the "Instant Stonehenge," the Washington Commission of Fine Arts vetoed the choice. Congress passed a resolution ordering the Memorial Commission to do better...
...Pedersen & Tilney simplified its design. Both the Memorial Commission and the Fine Arts Commission approved the new version, but critics began calling it Son of Instant Stonehenge...