Word: looms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smoldering menace, a dandy in smirking repose-until, one day, he scans some scribbled Mozart sheet music, and tears of astonishment and fury course down his cheeks. Says Abraham, who has played in everything from Shakespeare to Scarface to a leotarded leaf in the Fruit of the Loom TV spots: "Salieri is a figure tragic in Greek proportions because he enters into a competition with God." Forman says he chose these two off Broadway journeymen over stars, or over actors who had performed in the play, because "I wanted to believe that this person is Mozart, is Salieri, not just...
...implications of the decision for the criminal justice system loom large indeed. Not only is there no proof that a more narrow application of the exclusionary rule will yield more valid prosecutions, but such cost-benefits, analysis focuses excessively on the short-term pros and cons of laws--rather than the long-range impact of such a major change in this country's governing document...
Riding into this prickly cactus patch are Presidential Contenders Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, for whom the May 5 caucuses loom as a High Noon. Actually, a more apt Texas metaphor for Hart might be the Alamo. Reeling from his defeats in Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and, last week, Missouri, he vowed to start winning again in the West. A bad loss in the Lone Star State could start the vultures circling. For Jackson, the state's large Hispanic vote tests his ability to make his "rainbow coalition" a bit less monochromatic than it has been...
...idea was inspired by the cards used on Jacquard looms to determine the designs in cloth. Said she: "The analytical engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves...
...William Adams of George Washington University, three out of every four Grenadians would like their country to become part of the U.S. Some 60%, moreover, want Washington to increase the 275-strong American contingent that maintains order on the island. Yet behind the Spice Island's extravagant gratitude loom problems for the U.S. To justify its "rescue mission" internationally, Washington must show that it can restore democracy to the island, then withdraw its troops before the good will wears thin. Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon is Grenada's largely ceremonial leader, but the island has been run since...