Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mines were of Iranian origin. In a series of conferences over the weekend, the President's top military advisers, including Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser Colin Powell and Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented a series of options. Reagan eventually selected a "light" form of retaliation, according to Crowe. It included the targeting for destruction of two oil platforms, the Sassan and the Sirri, that served as bases for Iranian intelligence monitoring in the gulf, and the sinking of one Iranian naval vessel. "We concentrated on targets that are at sea," Crowe said...
...Claudia is at last defeated by cancer, but she has a good death: "Gradually, the room is filled with light . . . and she is filled with elation." That puts her ahead of the dying Goethe, who, in his last words, had to ask for more light. Up in heaven, one can be sure, Claudia will use it against...
...squeak when it first entered the macho business of building commercial-jet engines. Two decades ago, when a GE representative tried to sell a new engine to Donald Nyrop, then president of Northwest Airlines, the executive pointed to a ceiling fixture and wisecracked, "Whenever I want a light bulb, I'll pick GE's. For jet engines, I'll stick with Pratt & Whitney!" Nearly all jet airliners built at that time, notably the long-range Boeing 707 and shorter- haul McDonnell Douglas DC-9, were powered by engines carrying Pratt & Whitney's eagle emblem. GE, despite success in developing high...
...flight-tested the UDF on the prototype for its next midrange plane. But perhaps GE's moment of poetic justice really came last May, when Northwest Airlines, the diehard Pratt buyer, decided to buy 120 of the CFM56 engines. That must have prompted a few smiles at the light-bulb company...
This laborious process favors contour and flatness, light-and-dark contrast rather than color, and the single iconic shape. Sultan does decoratively what an older American artist like Robert Moskowitz does grandly: by taking a familiar shape and rescaling it, mainly as profile -- one still life of an egg and three lemons on a plate is also 8 ft. square -- he slows up recognition and provokes, in the more successful paintings, a sense of strangeness...