Word: larger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reardon said the proposal is part of a larger plan to renovate the entire IAB. "The entire building is in need of repairs and renovation," he added...
...crisis that was triggered by the Shah's arrival for treatment in New York is much larger than the Shah. As U.S. embassies go up in flames, and Americans are killed, it is difficult to see how any compromise on the Shah can provide more than a first step toward a return to civilized relations with Khomeini's Iran...
Libertine, blasphemer, aristocratic scapegrace, eternal anarchist, the Don Juan of legend still enthralls and disturbs the Western consciousness. He is a figure of mythic proportions, larger than the countless works of art that have tried to contain him, from Moliere and Goldoni through Byron and Shaw. The fascination of his enigmatic psychology is apparently inexhaustible. He has been seen as a Punch-like comic character; as a tragic hero, or Nietzschean rebel against God; as a walking textbook of sexual pathology. He survives all interpretations. He will survive even this one: an opulent but confused and wrongheaded adaptation...
...tradition to which Still's work is related is heroic landscape, the art of the epic vista, as seen in 19th century America by painters like Bierstadt and Moran. No doubt, in some general way, his years spent under larger skies than Manhattan's, in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest, contributed to the sense of vast atmospheric scale in his art. But to read it directly as landscape violates its meaning. The cliffs and ravines of color, the jagged rifts of blue or vermilion breaking through a matrix of dense enveloping black, are no metaphors of the Grand...
...years since Coach Jerry Faust organized a varsity football squad, his Fighting Crusaders have won 159 games, been tied twice and suffered just 17 losses. They have rolled up eight undefeated seasons, including the one they completed a week ago with a 37-6 win over a larger school, Mount Healthy. That left Moeller firmly entrenched atop the informal lists as the U.S.'s champion secondary school for the third time in four years and further extended the school's collection of trophies: eleven Greater Cincinnati League titles as well as three state, seven regional and nine city...