Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wednesday, the University joined in the commemoration of a 1745 raid on the French fort at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia by returning a two-foot, wrought-iron cross seized at the raid...
...bring a little iron and ironing board. You will use it, and so will all your roommates. As you'll quickly discover, steam showers don't work all that well. And DON"T bring anything that will require too much ironing--linen shirts will sit in your closet for eternity...
Nevertheless, one of art's iron laws is that sooner or later, what goes around comes around. And this show provides a moving record of Europe's reaffirmation of itself against terrible odds. The totalitarian regimes of the '30s-Nazism in Germany and Central Europe, Fascism in Italy, Stalinism in the Soviet Union-had wiped entire countries off the map of modernist culture. Though modernism had long flirted with the idea of historical amnesia, treating the past as though it were a drag on invention, it was not equipped to deal with the actual destruction of that past...
...HIStory any good? In a way, the Iron Curtain motif of Jackson's ad campaign is on target. HIStory is a lot like communism-out of vogue but still capable of getting large masses of people excited. HIStory's first CD contains digitally remastered versions of some of Jackson's greatest hits, including such classics as Rock with You and Beat It. The second CD has 15 new songs, featuring plenty of guest performers (basketball star Shaquille O'Neal has a rap cameo on the song 2Bad, and sister Janet duets with Michael on Scream) and guest producers (including...
...after protesters decorated the wrought-iron fence spikes in front of the White House with scores of surgical gloves, President Clinton apologized to gay and lesbian elected officials "for the inappropriate and insensitive treatment several of the participants were subjected to at the entrance gate of the White House." At a White House meeting last week, some Secret Service agents wore rubber gloves when greeting the officials. Clinton personally assured the group that Secret Service Director Eljay Bowron "is taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again...