Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this week begins regular coverage for the duration of the campaign of races for the Senate and House that are significant not only for their effect on the balance of power in the 97th Congress but also for their insight into local and state issues that color the rich mosaic of America...
...Billy might resurface there, and talked with Carter neighbors and friends. Says she: "My quest ended the way journalism too often does-failure." Not really. McGeary's firsthand knowledge of the hometown scene, and the lives and personalities of the two Carter brothers, formed one piece of the mosaic that became TIME's cover story...
...saying how marvelous the Tatum O'Neal character was. So I said, 'Listen, guys, I was the same type of child, only I grew up with German troops and hunger and death.' They told me to write it all down." The result: My Adult Childhood, a mosaic of young life under Nazi occupation that has brought such a flood of letters it may end up as-what else?-a movie...
...still clearly remember standing on the porch of my hotel room five years ago, seeing colorful shanty-towns spilling over the mountainsides a few hundred yards away from the luxury apartment buildings lining the seashore. Orphans slept and begged on the undulating, black-and-white mosaic sidewalks. Since then, though, the government has erected billboards advertising soft-drinks to hide the slums and has kept the kids off the pavement...
...lining up early outside the gate on Joseph Campau Avenue, Hamtramck's main street, in the subfreezing, clear morning air. She waves to old friends as they drift off, feeling only an elusive, half-real sense of loss. Above her loom massive gray factory walls with their vast mosaic of windows, painted-over green, cracked and dirty. Only one of the four black smokestacks exhales into the sky. The railroad tunnels that run beneath the building are empty, and the moaning central paint ovens have fallen silent...