Word: representive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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All of the triumphal pageantry of the 1984 Olympics, and now of the centennial of the Statue of Liberty, may represent an emotional regrouping. The American character quite distinctly decrystallized during the '60s and '70s. It became alienated from itself, and Americans entertained the depressive thought that they had ceased...
Three middle stops in Houston represent an oasis all right, but having coached the Celtics to a championship four years ago, Fitch had a special * perspective on both teams and seemed to be finding scant comfort in so much local knowledge. "When that little picture machine of his goes off...
This checklist of difficulties raises questions about the wisdom of committing money to a replacement shuttle. When the Interagency Group on Space visited the White House last month to propose a new orbiter, Chief of Staff Donald Regan suggested that the shuttle might represent outmoded technology. Yet most aerospace experts...
The problem, though, is that almost all of the candids are of underclassmen--very few are of the graduating class. Somehow I doubt that the few sophomore and junior faces dwelling on the pages of the book successfully represent the numerous memories of the class who bought the yearbook--the...
All action movies tend toward the abstract. Once the moviemakers establish a persuasive motive for one set of characters to spend some time and much energy chasing another set of characters around, the truth (or falsity) of these pictures must be looked for in the staging and cutting of the...