Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pilot hurled his rakish craft into a steep and punishing climb, high above the cheering audience and the aeronautics engineers busily jotting notes on clipboards. The plane almost stalled, but it managed to pull level before it swooped back home, scattering the judges as it buzzed their table, ducked under a chalkboard and finally slammed into the bleachers. The scene was not Edwards Air Force Base but Seattle's Kingdome, where fans usually cheer the flight of baseballs and footballs. The prototype was only 10 in. long, and its sortie of 16.26 seconds had just won the time-aloft event...
...President and perhaps the Vice President, Kirkpatrick, 58, is the most sought after political speaker in the country. She plans to accept 50 of more than 200 lecture invitations she has received for the coming year. Her fee is $20,000 and up, meaning that she will pull in a cool $1 million at least. Her written words are also in demand. Last month she agreed to sign a $900,000 contract for a book about her experiences at the U.N. This fall she will begin writing a weekly newspaper column on foreign affairs, producing at least another...
...remarkable for the creative virtuosity with which its functions are accommodated while suggesting a monumentality that belies actual dimensions." She added, "This is not easy architecture. And it is not innocent architecture. It is knowledgeable, worldly, elitist and difficult . . . You've got to be as good as Stirling to pull it off." At Harvard, reaction to the new building is ranging from approval to outrage. John Coolidge, professor of architectural history, calls the building "brilliant," at once "striking, convenient and, above all, a sympathetic setting for works of art." Counters Law Professor Charles M. Haar: "The Sackler is even uglier...
...tension and adult anonymity. Fischl paints this world of failed intimacies with conviction and narrative grip: at best, his drawing is beautifully concise (though marred, at present, by too many botched and hasty passages), and his use of cinematic framing and lighting conventions gives his scenes a subtle push-pull of vividness and artificiality. This artist is clearly set for the long haul, into the 21st century...
Most Greeks join Papandreou in decrying what they consider a U.S. tilt toward Turkey as a strategically more important NATO partner. Nonetheless, following his 1981 election, the Prime Minister failed to follow through on earlier threats to pull Greece out of NATO and the European Community. Moreover, despite his continued opposition to the presence of U.S. bases, Papandreou negotiated a five-year renewal of the leases in 1983. Says an adviser at NATO headquarters in Brussels: "By his standards, at least, he has been less extreme. We're hoping everyone will give him the benefit of the doubt...