Word: minored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both respects these works embodied the new spirit of their time. A surge in population had fattened the cities and fostered Greek colonies from Sicily to Asia Minor, creating the prerequisites for free inquiry and sophisticated taste: prosperity, cosmopolitanism and leisure. An individual voice was being heard, graceful but down to earth, in the new lyric poets like Sappho and Anacreon. Artists began signing their work. On a red-figure drinking cup that shows a young athlete bending over a washbowl, a blunt autograph bends over the image: "Pamphaios made...
Since the PTL affair, Swaggart, like many of his TV colleagues, has had to face sharply declining revenues. He doubled his organization's line of credit to $20 million, though a spokesman insists that indebtedness is minor compared with the assets of $112 million or more. Some cash will fund completion of $12.2 million worth of construction at the Jimmy Swaggart Bible College and an adjacent theological seminary that is supposed to open next fall. For Swaggart, the period of exile is likely to prove comfortable, since the nondenominational board that pays him is dominated by family members and friends...
...concert that the HRO is billing as "An Evening With Three Romantics," the sweeping Tchaikovsky B-flat minor concerto figures to be the most accessible and romantic offering. Listeners' ears have changed much since the concerto's premiere in Boston more than a century ago, after which the work was hailed as "extremely difficult, strange, wild, ultra-modern," and, "like the first pancake, a flop...
...features; her performance Saturday night made the most of her seductive looks. Swathed in a red dress with black sequins, her face layered with an inch of rouge and at least as much eyeshadow, Witt cut a striking figure as she skated onto the ice. After a few minor spins and jumps she entered the second sequence of her program, the memorable part--she kicked, she tossed her head, she waved her arms, she smiled. She looked compelling and sexy...
Dershowitz said Harvard final clubs serve as the "minor leagues" for adult all-male clubs. "Where did they learn that it's more comfortable to be with only males, to be with only Christians, to be with only whites," he asked. "They learned it at Harvard...