Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military impact of the Gorbachev initiative will depend on precisely how the force reductions and withdrawals are carried out. Here is what Gorbachev promised to achieve in the next two years and what the numbers might mean...
...plaintiffs, headed by Debra McManus, say the garage violates a city freeze on new commercial parking spaces set up under the provisions of the Clean Air Act of 1973. A ruling in their favor would mean that every parking facility built in the city since 1984 is illegal. McManus said the case was postponed from today...
After the rape last Wednesday of a Harvard employee in the Science Center, Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 said, "There has not been an increase in violent crime on the campus." What? Does he mean that he is content with a rape rate of about one every 1.5 years? Every rape is an increase in violent crime. Steiner went on to tell a reporter, "I don't think the Science Center is a place of unusual concern...
...mastery does not mean a talent frozen in its own fancy high-mindedness, a rhetorical grandeur. It means the kind of range, flexibility and intelligence of response that enables an artist to pass on his culture -- his sense of past art and what it means -- to the present, refracting it through his own experiences without nostalgia or loss. Mastery does not kid itself in distinguishing between a real relation to tradition and one based on expediency. It does not mean facility. (Cezanne had it, in the teeth of exhausting struggles with the motifs that show at every point...
Barbie endures in part because she evolves, as each little girl grows and as each generation changes. She has survived a sexual revolution, an army of imitators and a string of risky career moves and hairstyle changes. There was Barbie the stewardess in 1961, then Barbie the nurse (no mean feat, since 1964 was the first year she could bend her knees) and Barbie the astronaut. She apparently was completing medical school at the time, since this year she emerged as Dr. Barbie. "The toys that become classics are those that help children define themselves as they grow," says Mattel...