Word: opened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush and Gore, Bradley doesn't mention God during his poetic flights. He is a believer--he was raised a Presbyterian, passed through a period of Christian Fundamentalism while young, but then rejected what he has since called "the narrowness of view" of evangelicals. He has written about being "open" to the essential truth of all faiths, but today he declines to discuss the subject. "That's one of the places where I draw the line," he says, and that feels refreshing in a year when other pols call press conferences to discuss their personal relationships with the Lord...
...nation debated a decade ago whether taxpayers should fund controversial art, but in the capital of crude, few people consider rude art a problem. Last week, however, an aide showed Giuliani a New York Daily News article with the headline GALLERY OF HORROR. Previewing Sensation, an exhibit set to open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art this Saturday, the article warned of installations containing animals pickled in formaldehyde and graphic sculptures of people with genitalia where their faces should...
...pictures pouring out of Taiwan last week that told the real story. Buildings were peeled open like dollhouses, with walls stripped away and still furnished rooms absurdly exposed to the air. Tall buildings leaned drunkenly against smaller neighbors. Taipei's Sungshan hotel-apartment complex accordioned from 12 floors to just four, but a temple nearby remained standing, its paper lanterns hanging from the perimeter of the roof...
Trouble had already started inside Tibet. There was open revolt and bloodshed. It spread from village to village. While I was in India, some of my officials advised me to remain and take care of the freedom movement from India. Another group, including Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, advised me to return. He said it was better to struggle from within Tibet...
Maybe Michael Jordan wouldn't have retired if he had known it would come to this. Six years after his eponymous restaurant opened in Chicago, it is being renamed, and redesigned, to honor the city's latest athletic hero, Cubs player SAMMY SOSA. The restaurant's owners (Jordan is not among them) claim business has abated since the former MVP is no longer on the court and only rarely at a table. New figurehead Sosa has agreed to dine regularly on the premises, which when they are officially rechristened next year, will feature Caribbean cuisine and a statue...