Word: masse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What has happened in the world as a whole between 1960 and 1988, and especially during the '80s, is analogous to what occurred in the U.S. in the years after the Civil War, between, say, 1875 and 1900. The railroads spreading west, the telephone, mass manufacture, elevators, a thousand other new items of technology -- all transformed America, opened its markets and shortened its distances. The world today is becoming a global society, and a much smaller planet, because of satellites, computers, jet travel, the interpenetrations of world markets, and the fact that Communism has grown cold in its extremities...
...Easter Mass at the Vatican...
...will save the lighthouses? It would seem, without meddling too much with puns, that it's up to George Bush's "thousand points of light." The relationship between the Lighthouse Preservation Society and the Thacher Island Association, both based in Rockport, Mass., shows, however, that focusing even two points of light can be extremely difficult...
Guernsey said he aims to pressure Congress to pass measures to increase federal spending on housing, such as a bill sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass...
...would return in strange forms in his old age, like the 1896-98 painting of a fallen jockey whose horse may distantly refer to one of the steeds of the Apocalypse, or the Russian Dancers of 1899, three women in clumping boots, locked together in a straining mass like Goya's witches. Both the allegory and the freshness can be found in his first real masterpiece, done in 1858-67 after he got back to Paris from his studies in Rome: The Bellelli Family, that marvelously observed group portrait of his neurotic aunt Laura, her lazy and distracted husband Gennaro...