Word: marshaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout his career, Italian culture buzzed with manifestoes, claims and counterclaims. Before World War I, the Futurists tried to marshal art into a relentless machine-age spectacle. In the '20s and '30s, Mussolini and his cultural gang strove to co-opt Italian modernism into Fascist propaganda-dynamism, simplification. By the late '40s and '50s, socialist realism (especially in Bologna, which prided itself on its worker traditions) was trying, amid clouds of polemic, to become the house style of Italian art. All through this, Morandi stayed where he was, looking at his plain table of dusty bottles...
Three days after the escape, a woman paying a $35 fine in a San Diego traffic court found she was short of cash. She asked the deputy marshal to call for her companion. Out went the cry: "Paging Raynard DeLeon, paging Raynard DeLeon . . ." DeLeon, an auto thief, was cocky enough to come when called, but he too was broke. He said he would return as soon as he could raise the money...
Meanwhile, the obliging deputy marshal, Gary Mahaffey, 27, thought DeLeon's name sounded familiar. A police team at the courthouse was alerted, and when DeLeon returned (in a stolen car) three hours later, they had their man. His girlfriend, impatient, had already gone home without him. Smart move: he had been unable to scrounge up the money anyway...
...Soviets marshal their own numbers to show that a rough parity in theater nuclear weapons already exists between NATO and the U.S.S.R. How so? Because Moscow counts "delivery systems" differently. Soviet estimates for NATO include the American submarines and aircraft based in Europe that are capable of carrying nuclear weapons. The Soviets also count British and French bombers and missiles, even though the French are not part of the NATO military structure. According to the Soviet count there are 986 NATO delivery systems. Their own total, they say, is 975. But this does not include all Soviet fighter-bombers...
...stockade at Fort Meade, Md., last week, Hinckley jammed the lock to his cell with a piece of cracker-box cardboard. Then he stood on a chair, knotted one sleeve of an Army field jacket around his neck and the other to an iron window bar and, as U.S. marshals shouted at him and struggled vainly to open the door, stepped off the chair. Hinckley, 26, hung for several minutes before a frantic marshal could climb an exterior wall and reach through a window to cut him loose from outside. For the next half-hour Hinckley lay on his cell...