Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...majority of students would probably prefer to continue to have choice, but I think that many of them also think that the houses should be even more diverse than they are now," Jewett said...
There's no mystery about why this should be so. What Nauman practices is a form of psychic primitivism, or atavism if you prefer. His art is chiefly about two states: compulsion and regression. When you see a videotape of him smearing his face with black or green greasepaint, you aren't sure whether he's disguising himself or simulating the fecal games of a backward child. Autism is the governing metaphor of his work's "look"--the long-winded rituals of trivial movement, the ejaculatory phrases, the bouts of ungovernable rage...
...archenemy of nature and the world's primary despoiler of pristine wilds. "Even the landscapes that we suppose to be most free of our culture," Schama writes, "may turn out, on closer inspection, to be its product." Yosemite is surely overtrekked and tourist befouled, but would we prefer, he asks, that it had never been mapped and emparked? As he notes, "The wilderness, after all, does not locate itself, does not name itself...
...Basque provinces. TIME Spain reporter Jane Walker says that because the provinces are essentially autonomous already, with their own schools and taxation systems, ETA has steadily lost support. Thus "Every now and then they have to attack someone to keep their name in the papers, but most Basques now prefer to settle this at the ballot...
...sincere about atoning for sending Americans into a war he knew they couldn't win, then he shouldn't profit financially from this sad, tragic, late confession," said William Detweiler, leader of the 3.1-million member veterans' group. McNamara's replied (through publisher Times Books) that he'd prefer to make any charitable contributions "privately...