Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the quest for the best replaced muckraking as front-page material, it was difficult to define alternative newspapers. In size, they range from the Village Voice (circ. 170,000), to the Straight Creek Journal (circ. 5,500). Most of the 40 papers (combined circulation 1.5 million) in the year-old National Association of Alternative Newsweeklies are tabloids serving urban areas. But at least one is a full-size broadsheet (Willamette Week in Portland, Ore.), and others are statewide (Maine Times), suburban (Pacific Sun in Marin County, Calif.), rural (California's Mendocino Grapevine) and even insular (Maui...
Every great fantasy novel has its great crisis, whether a battle, a speech, or a quest fulfilled. When Perscors realizes the power his humanity has over all the abstractions on Lucifer--not a bad way in itself to work out the novel--he shouts "My epiphany is here!" So much for simple human dignity in Bloom's over-intellectualized wasteland...
Much of Islam's resurgence can be seen as a quest for stability and roots, inspired by a disdain for Western values and for a kind of modernization that exacerbated economic and social problems in many Third World nations. Health clinics cut down on disease, but they also aggravated the population explosion in those Islamic nations where birth control is little practiced. Rapid growth of industry in cities provided jobs, but it also disrupted the sacrosanct family structure in villages as men streamed into cities in search of work...
...budget is a little crazo too, up $4 million from the original $20 million because of the stunts and Spielberg's quest for perfection. "The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years," says Spielberg, 31, who neither smokes, drinks, nor touches all those drugs that are served like hors d'oeuvres at Hollywood parties. But then Spielberg and his live-in companion for the past three years, Actress Amy Irving (Voices), hardly ever go out. Most of the time they stay in their house in Coldwater Canyon...
...deliver. The Mahto men: as philosophers, fathers, warriors, hunters, and leaders: face questions that all humans face: is my son's bad behavior my fault? As leader of the people, should the people follow me or should I follow them? Is there a God? But her protangonist's quest--self-control and the meaning of existence--she never fully answers...