Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western modernist ethos. They came from a world enlaced with traditional forms, in which the idea of an avant-garde was barely conceivable and the notion of radical renewal seemed like cultural parricide. Terms like expression and the self had quite different loadings in Paris and in Tokyo. The rapid change of styles in Paris -- fauvism, cubism, expressionism, surrealism -- was bewildering. But they seemed portents of cultural renewal; so even with Japanese who were painfully aware that their country had a name in Europe for imitation, not invention, the need overran the obstacles. "Of course one has to imitate," remarked...
This year, Harvard and St. Lawrence--the league's top two teams--met at Bright Center in early January. The game, a series of blistering rushes up and down the ice and shots fired in rapid succession from far and near, made Harvard Coach Bill Cleary ecstatic. For Cleary, the Harvard-SLU game was hockey the way it should be played...
...truth of that statement was proven shortly before Christmas break by the rapid response given by neighbors in the community when fire forced residents of 1105 Massachusetts Avenue to the street...
When he returned to England, Wilde set about amplifying his fame. First, to stop rumors about his questionable sexual proclivities, he married and fathered two sons in rapid succession. Only then, at 33, was he seduced by an Oxford undergraduate named Richard Ross in what Ellmann asserts (surprisingly, in view of the Wilde legend) was his first homosexual experience. After that, Wilde's imagination caught fire. He wrote essays (The Decay of Lying, The Soul of Man Under Socialism) and reviews that kept him constantly before the public eye. Lady Windermere's Fan, the first of his plays...
Babbitt's finest achievement as Governor was his passage of landmark legislation to protect the lifeblood of Arizona's rapid economic growth: its scarce underground water. This came only after a dramatic charade in which Babbitt enlisted Cecil Andrus, then Secretary of the Interior. The two agreed that Andrus would threaten to cut funding for a major water project dear to powerful economic interests in Arizona unless the state managed its groundwater better. "I went home and called him an overreaching federal hypocrite," Babbitt recalls with a grin. Then, having immersed himself in the arcana of water management, Babbitt mediated...