Word: looming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter is still an enigmatic leader of uncertain political philosophy. He is not inspirational by nature, and is not likely ever to be a charismatic commander. This failing could make him vulnerable to a challenge. Much will depend on how he handles two issues that loom in 1979: ratification of SALT II by a Senate suspicious of Soviet motives and of Carter's seeming willingness to accommodate Moscow; and reducing inflation, on which he is steering a conservative course that will be attacked by the liberals. Both battles promise to be bruising, and their outcome will largely determine whether...
Small favors can also loom large in an off-year election. Carter pleased Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic by inviting him to fly aboard Air Force One to attend Pope Paul's funeral last August. The President will spend the night at Bilandic's home when he campaigns in Chicago in early November. But in Ohio Carter irritated Cuyahoga County Chairman Tim Hagan by inviting Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich to the White House. The hotheaded young mayor has antagonized Hagan and other party leaders by refusing to endorse most of the local Democrats. Last week Hagan joined other Democrats...
...gloom, Piranesi's reputation receded, even though his prints were continuously reproduced. One series, drawn when he was about 25, still grips the modern imagination. These are the Carceri d'Invenzione, or Imaginary Prisons, which are the centerpieces of the National Gallery's show. Overpowering machines loom darkly. Ropes dangle ominously from huge beams. Towering arches soar, balconies thrust across them, stairways lead upward to rooms that are not really rooms but more spaces...
Completing the harvest is no easy task. Windfall loot has spawned violent crime. Crop thefts and armed robberies now loom as more ominous threats than police busts. "The paranoia gets so thick around here in October that you could cut it with a knife," says an Oregon grower...
...short as Copey himself, Frankfurter seemed to loom over us. He made us feel that a massive obscenity was being perpetrated, not only against the grandeur of the law, which was being fouled in Massachusetts in the name of justice. His voice was that of a Hebrew prophet. It was not lament. It was fueled by a determination to correct an evil. He was Isaiah rather than Jeremiah...