Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Victoria G.T. Bassetti hopes that "one day our society will look at Playboy and Playgirl as sensual expressions of sexuality..." ("Don't Rationalize Away Sensitivity"). But these magazines, by their very structure and intent, seem antithetical to full sensual expression...
...Basin Initiative, a plan to stir economic growth in the region by granting twelve years of duty-free entry into the U.S. for products from 21 Caribbean and Central American nations. But the free-trade clauses were $ stripped away as the bill made its way through a Congress more intent on protecting special interests in the U.S. than on helping the Caribbean. Last year, Caribbean exports to the U.S. dropped by 23%, a decline due in large part to a poor market in sugar, bauxite and cocoa. After a 90-min. parley with leaders of nine Caribbean nations last week...
...pupae, the embryonic scribblings of cellular life learning to write its name. One painting, Insecta, 1985, is full of chrysalises, cockchafers and stag beetles, with a red cicada clinging to a scrubby patch of blue ground. Another, Pitch Lake, 1985, has an array of spore clusters creeping, with phallic intent, across a sticky-looking field of bitumen. Some of the images are quite recognizable (there are clams, for instance, and bean sprouts), while others have the sketchy look of genetic diagrams...
...Dickens, such pluck and clarity of intent are completely captivating. A dud in bookkeeping class but an outstanding English student, Simon manages a transfer to an academic high school. Her lively essays attract attention. She has other notable attributes: blond hair, blue eyes, a sensuous mouth and a fortune in cheekbones. But even James Monroe High is a bit restricting. Foreshadowing the future world traveler, she writes, "I had no time for step- by-step projects; the urgent need was for swift voyages, with short stops at many ports of call...
Offutt did not hold onto the council's chair by mouthing grand slogans or issuing statements of intent like those associated with the earlier days of the campaign. He won after outlining specific ideas to improve the quality of student life. None of the changes he outlined is as captivating as "controversial political questions," but each would have a positive effect on the life of undergraduates...