Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But just when you think you've got DeLillo's intentions pinned down, he'll toss a thematic spitball and twist his meaning 180 degrees. The second act is a cracked mirror image of the first, as cunning and elaborate systems of role-playing and deception are peeled away, audience...
Moses moves through the forest reading signs. He and Olentwala keep up an easy undulous whistling dialogue with the cattle. Moses explains that the whistles have meaning. The cows know by the Masai's whistle whether to go left or right, whether there is water near, whether they are headed...
Supporters of what has come to be called "phased deployment" -- meaning putting in place a simple system of smart rocks as a prelude to a more advanced system -- base their optimism on the success of last year's Delta 180 demonstration; in this experiment, a space vehicle launched on a...
Such thinking played a significant role in the famous 1976 New Jersey Supreme Court case that permitted the Catholic parents of comatose Karen Ann Quinlan to have her respirator removed. The Quinlans' lawyer, Paul Armstrong, also a Catholic, was among the Boston conferees. He has noted that since the Quinlan...
Even as some dissidents were enjoying their first days of freedom, Soviet authorities were cracking down on refuseniks, citizens who have asked to be allowed to emigrate but have been refused. Last Monday a group of about 20 refuseniks, mostly Soviet Jews, gathered on Arbat Street, a historic Moscow thoroughfare...