Word: mod
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flair, but disciplined. George Bush needed less attention than the others, but Pitts found that a slightly rounder cut helped soften Bush's lean face. When Bush lost the l992 election, Milt was chagrined. There had to be some other factor, he reckoned, worrying that Clinton's mod, over-the-ears hair had turned the tide, though Pitts was convinced Clinton's hair was not short enough and was too pointed on the top. He would have helped Clinton, claiming that "my scissors are neither Republican nor Democrat," but by then he was hopelessly pegged as a Republican journeyman...
They also know, however, that the facts of race don't exhaust anybody's human complexity. And that seems to be the enviable privilege of the new black artists -- today's Post-Mod Squad. In its openness, its variety, its playfulness with forms, its refusal to follow preordained ideological line, its sustained engagements with the black artistic past, today's artistic upwelling is nourished by the black cultural milieu, but isn't confined...
...most radical deviation from Scheme Z, known as 8.1D Mod 5, depresses the artery underground, below the Charles River...
...other two alternatives unveiled at the press conference would cost less than 8.1D Mod 5 and would take less than the 13 years estimated necessary to build 8.1D Mod 5, according to state officials...
...Mod 5 has an estimated cost of $1.28 billion, $539 million more than the estimated cost of Scheme Z. And last September, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers criticized the environmental impact of that plan's river tunnel...