Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...force of insensitivity and racism. That lingering bitterness was evident the day after the Tottenham riot. Bernie Grant, a black Marxist who heads the local borough council, not only refused to condemn the killing of the officer but declared that the police had received "a bloody good hiding." The remark outraged much of the country. But it was especially embarrassing for Neil Kinnock, leader of the opposition Labor Party; Grant is expected to run for Parliament as a Labor candidate...
Robert Rauschenberg refers to Miyake easily as "an international artist, the most influential artist in Japan. He's supporting the whole of the artistic community." Miles Davis likes to remark that Miyake "designs the way I think about music," and, pressed a little on the subject, comes up with some elegant riffs about Miyake's work. "He has balance, composition; he's incredible with fabric. He is an artist, yes, more than a fashion designer. I'd like to buy all of his stuff and put it on the wall, to look at when I get depressed." Even among...
...connection with these questions let us comment briefly on the matter of Martin Kilson, Professor of Government at Harvard University, and the controversy surrounding his critisism in the Harvard Crimson of certain black students' activities. First it should be understood that Kilson is, to paraphrase Churchill's remark about the Russians, an inscrutable enigma wrapped in a mystery. In other words, anyone even casually acquainted with Kilson's political and intellectual history recognizes immediately that he is a figure of considerable complexity. His intuitive and scholarly comprehension of obscure dialects of black life is frequently brilliant and shrewd...
...This is the greatest disaster in the history of commercial space technology." So last week said a stunned James Barrett, president of Washington-based International Technology Underwriters, a major insurer of space satellites. Barrett's remark was prompted by the unprecedented loss of three new communications satellites in a week. Estimated value of the three, insured by INTEC and other companies: $250 million...
...Division of the Library of Congress. A child of the prairie, seized early on by wanderlust, he turned 60 one recent steamy day, and the cogitation that accompanies important anniversaries led him to say that he was precisely where he wanted to be. He tossed out the remark as he guided a tour through his treasures, smiling like a boy showing off kittens...