Word: neil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Fine Arts Neil Levine, an expert in the history of modern architecture, also recalled his youth. "I always thought you had to make an effort to open a book or go to a ballet," he said. "Looking at buildings takes almost no effort...
...reform bill should restore market efficiency to industries that have been artificially stimulated by tax rules that encouraged investors to fund money-losing propositions. The distorted sectors range from farming to housing to energy. Says Neil Harl, economics professor at Iowa State University: "It makes no sense whatsoever to be encouraging people to bring land into production right now, not when we're drowning in crops...
...second act, where the Broadway version bogged down in depiction of the family's fate, the narrative confidently shifts into analysis of the American character -- the need for belief and common purpose and even catastrophe to shake people out of self-absorption. As Lee Baum, the author's surrogate, Neil Daglish is touching, introspective and believably American. But the play's most convincing voice is Miller's, admonishing us: "There has never been a society that hasn't had a clock running on it." His American Clock records harrowing midnights and piteously false dawns...
...marksmen took up their positions on the rooftops and security men disguised themselves as bewigged footmen. By 10 a.m. the first of the 1,800 guests began taking their seats in the abbey. First Lady Nancy Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were in attendance, along with Opposition Leaders Neil Kinnock, David Owen and David Steel. So too were Actor Michael Caine, TV Host David Frost and Singer Elton John, sporting purple glasses and a ponytail...
directed by Neil Jordan...