Word: myriads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Topless dancers, noontime burlesque shows and the myriad other forms of sexually oriented entertainment that the military has dreamed up over the years are now off base, literally, for the Navy, according to guidelines adopted last week. A study last fall found that on-base sex clubs encouraged "abusive behavior toward all women." Private parties at Navy messes will also have to clean up their act or go elsewhere...
...against public drunkenness. But between the elements of the painting there is a continuous jostling, circling and reflection, a sense of the vitality of form in every particular, that puts metaphoric reflection and wordplay back in second place. It is the form, and the subtlety of its myriad relationships in spaces you feel you can touch, that counts. And there are enough paintings at this level in the Guggenheim's show to convey a sense of Braque's achievement, even though its full scope is not, alas, there...
Invoking "unity" like a mantra, the Democrats rallied around their standardbearer. Dukakis and his team managed to keep the party's myriad special-interest groups content, yet not too well fed. As a media spectacle, the convention's only failing was so unusual for Democrats that they reveled in it: the floor show was rather dull and undramatic. The high points were the rousing speeches: Keynoter Ann Richards of Texas ridiculing George Bush for going after a "job he can't get appointed to"; Ted Kennedy cataloging the sins of the Reagan years; Jackson's resounding evocation of the personal...
...undergraduates. Only six students regularly attend meetings of the student organization that is supposed to represent all 2500 women undergraduates, the Radcliffe Union of Students Probably the biggest explanation for why Radcliffe activities draw so few participants is that women get here because of their involvement in a myriad of other activities. Once here, women don't want to be boxed into a sector all of their...
...tennis court, Arthur Ashe calls it the "zone." Jimmy Connors says the / ball grows to the size of a watermelon. By myriad accounts, the streaker's game, whatever the game, seems to be played in slow motion. Wayne Gretzky speaks of hockey that way. At the height of his batting powers, Ted Williams claimed he was able to read the spinning labels on 78-r.p.m. recordings. Pete Rose could count the stitches on a curving baseball. To Race Driver Jackie Stewart, nothing in the world seemed as serenely slow as a car responding well at 200 m.p.h...