Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effect would be a striking triumph for a movement that scarcely existed two years ago. In June 1979, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Reagan's host in Lynchburg, founded Moral Majority. In just 16 months, that organization claims to have signed up 72,000 ministers and 4 million lay members, establishing chapters in all 50 states. It expects to raise $5 million for political proselytizing this year alone...
...lay me down to sleep...
...life he remained a somewhat misunderstood figure. The problem was not lack of fame or acceptance; he had plenty of both, at least in the U.S., and even the abstract painters (whose work he tended to see as a threat) respected his exceptional formal gifts. Rather, the misunderstanding lay in the nature of Hopper's Americanness...
...Weimar, Germany, had also dealt with this theme: the city as condenser of loneliness. But none of them did it with the same etiquette of feeling. Hopper had no expressionist instincts at all. He sensed, but did not agonize over, a profound solitude, a leaning toward Thanatos that lay at the core of American optimism. Although he was the first painter to deal with it, he was not the first American to do so. The natural text for Hopper's city painting had been written by Melville in the first pages of Moby Dick: "Posted like silent sentinels...
Ingrid's Swedish husband, Fetter Lindstrom, a brain surgeon, persuaded her to smooth her frown, lay office cream and the fourth martini. He also advised her to emulate Garbo by keeping her garrulous mouth shut. On a movie set she stood up to directors; in real life she was easily led. Someone even had to tell her to abandon her marriage. Combat Photographer Robert Capa, whom she met in Paris after the war, tried. They loved each other, but he was not the marrying sort...