Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast between the effort to give art to the city and to protect it from its citizens is a hard one to reconcile for Tom Dempsey, the man responsible for painting and hanging seventeen streetside works of art over the last two years. But then the whole notion of being a professional artist is something that Tom, who signs his work with the mysterious, yet homey signature of `Tom the Friendly Neighborhood Artist', finds troubling...
...whispering terms with history, the friend of Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, the wife of America's most prominent publishing tycoon, the acquaintance of every President from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan. Yet even as she was winning over great men, she was overturning the very notion of the "great man" by storming all the old boys' clubs of power without ever relinquishing her femininity. In the space of 20 years, while presiding as the darling of the society columns, she was managing editor of a national magazine, successful Broadway playwright, war correspondent, Congresswoman and ambassador...
Still, the existence of an ozone hole did not necessarily mean CFCs were to blame, and a number of alternative explanations were proposed. Among them, says Dan Albritton, director of the Federal Government's Aeronomy Laboratory in Boulder, was the notion that the "hole did not signify an ozone loss at all, just a breakdown in the distribution system." An interruption in the movement of air from the tropics, where most ozone is created, to the poles could easily result in less ozone reaching the Antarctic. Another theory: perhaps the sunspot activity that peaked around 1980 created more ozone- destroying...
...accordance with the traditional laws of fairy-tale telling, The Princess Bride has a mawkishly happy ending, reinforcing the mistaken notion that a happy ending is a cliche. Even Reiner's framing device is trite: he has a grandfather, played by Peter "Columbo" Falk, read "the Princess Bride" fable to his ailing grandson...
...laughable for the clients of Richard Vigueire to decry direct mail fundraising and campaigning. Less humorous is the notion that Blacks and women represent narrow special interests in American society. But now Bork is showing his true colors and waging a political campaign on behalf of an "unpoliticized judiciary." Of course, Bork long ago might have had his place at the pinacle of America's "unpolitical judiciary" had not Reagan instead decided to nominate the first woman to the Court in 1981 and the first Italian-American...