Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years less one day after the original. The site was five miles from the actual battlefield, on 500 acres turned over for the occasion by a land developer. It was one of the largest re-enactments so far in the national craze for battle re-creations, which gathered momentum as a result of the Bicentennial celebrations ten years ago, and shows no sign of a cease-fire...
...says, "There is not one X-rated movie house or bookstore in the county today. They know if they bring them in here, we're going to enforce the law." The Meese commission report, says Steve Hallman, director of Citizens Concerned for Community Values of Greater Cincinnati, "will give momentum nationwide to obscenity-law enforcement...
...sort of sweeping tax revision will be enacted this year became a near certainty early last week when the Senate passed its version of tax reform, 97 to 3. The lopsided vote demonstrated that the idea has at last caught enough of the public imagination to develop an overwhelming momentum. It appears almost inevitable that the conference committee will indeed resolve differences between the Senate bill and one that the House whooped through by voice vote last December. The committee compromise should clear both chambers by Labor Day, and President Reagan will undoubtedly sign the final product into...
...speaker, Cuomo is a modern master of the ancient art of rhetoric. His repertoire includes sarcasm, mimicry, hyperbole, irony, parables, analogies and allusions. He poses questions and answers them, sets up philosophical straw men and knocks them down. He begins slowly and gains momentum; he races up the hill of one sentence and coasts down another. His timing is that of a stand-up comic. His voice can be as soothing as a late-night disk jockey's or as rumbling as an Old Testament prophet's. He can, on occasion, be shrill, edging toward the sanctimonious. But always...
...wood are whittled down to a fierce thinness, a buckling, bladelike sweep that from some angles seems to overwhelm the figure it surrounds and turn into a Nostradamus-like prophecy of 20th century constructed sculpture. These planes, screwing around the axes of arm and body, are given a momentum and self-sufficiency unique in the history of wood carving. Stoss's work, which can rarely be seen in quantity outside Nuremberg, is the revelation of this show, and nobody interested in the unfolding possibilities of sculpture should miss...