Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the lopsided statistics, the shabab boast of their accomplishments. "We've finally made the Israelis afraid of us," says an activist named Jamal, 21. His boyish face bespeaks both pride and intense anxiety. "You only die once," he says with some relief. Only once, like his friend Nadir Tayseer Abu Yasin, 14, who was "martyred" two days earlier. Jamal pulls out a photo of the dead boy taken moments after the shooting. "This is our fate...
...Bernard Berenson wrung his neck: "We turn away from Guido Reni with disgust unspeakable." And it was downhill from there; in 1910 one of his versions of Bacchus and Ariadne sold at Christie's for just under (pounds)10, a fraction of its auction price 60 years before. The nadir was in the late '50s, when you could get a 10-ft. Guido Reni (if you wanted it, which few did) for less than $300 at auction. Reni's posthumous career is not one the heroes of the Late Modernist Art Industry can contemplate with equanimity...
...dread moment for a political campaign comes when reporters, and sometimes ordinary citizens, start asking whether the candidate has already lost and the actual vote has become a formality. That nadir arrived for Michael Dukakis early last week. Following his lackluster performance in the second debate with George Bush, stories appeared that the Duke had effectively written off most of the country to concentrate his last desperate efforts on 18 states with 272 electoral votes -- a mere two over the number required for victory -- in which he still had a chance. The reports were denied, but not very convincingly...
...without ever having explained when or why they were estranged. And Donaldson writes, "As his fame grew, so did the local demands on his time from libraries, colleges, and civic and cultural associations." Exactly two pages later, this sentence obtrudes: "Cheever's reputation was at its nadir...
Others say the isolation makes off-campus living attractive. "There's nothing like coming home at the end of the day to your own house," Welch says. Nadir agrees, saying, "Personally, at the end of the day I like to leave campus and just change atmospheres...