Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many weirdos. For in the end, eccentricity is a mark of confidence, accommodated best by a confident society, whereas weirdness inspires fear because it is a symptom of fear and uncertainty and rage. A society needs the eccentric as much as it needs a decorated frame for the portrait it fashions of itself; it needs the weirdo as much as it needs a hole punched through the middle of the canvas...
...been a blessing for Richard Nixon. The Communists who rolled into Prague were not small peasants in black pajamas fighting in their own villages but living specters of the old cold war, of which Nixon was a ^ battle-hardened veteran. Even so, the election results in November were a portrait of a society deeply divided. Nixon and Humphrey split the popular vote almost evenly (at 43%), and George Wallace won 13.5% in the largest third-party turnout since Robert La Follette...
...when Aviator Charles Lindbergh became TIME's first Man of the Year, that honor has by definition gone to the person who has most influenced the year's events, for good or ill. Gorbachev certainly meets the test. He is also the first Man of the Year whose cover portrait was taken from a lacquered Russian...
HOME FIRES (Showtime). Most TV family dramas are so slick and reassuring that this bruisingly realistic portrait of a middle-class clan in distress looked as if it had come from another planet. From the lack of attention it received, it might have...
...when one hand and two legs are tied, and there are declarations all the time that Gulliver is the bully." Shamir's metaphor encapsulated the siege mentality that has overtaken the government since the Palestinian riots began in early December. But to the outside world, it was a distorted portrait of how the battlefield actually looked. As television footage and photographs have made clear, Gulliver has the gun. Last week six more Palestinians were killed, raising the toll to at least 23 dead and hundreds wounded...