Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe so, but a growing number of people seem to be willing to suck into their lungs the smoke from cocaine in a far more powerful form known variously as base, baseball, gravel, rock, roxanne and, more commonly, crack. Crack is cocaine boiled down (it makes a cracking sound when heated) into crystalline balls that can be smoked. "Crack is like throwing gas on the cocaine fire," says Manhattan Special Prosecutor Sterling Johnson. A gram of coke costs about $100, but two beads, or pea-shaped pieces, of crack go for $10, enough to guarantee a single user...
Future editions of Beehive will be shaped, as this one is, in part by the special strengths of their performers. The audience will remain a major participant, singing along and hamming it up. "Most people know what to expect when they come in, but a few seem taken aback," says Taylor, 32. "It's like going into a museum and being given an easel." Right: the perfect museum for the '80s. The artworks come alive and parade their stuff, just like old times...
...short, like all conscientious artists, Moore composed his own tribunal, that of the great dead from whose silent judgment there is no appeal. Naturally, his lack of close affinity with the avant-garde -- or even with the idea of avant-gardism -- made him seem like a fuddy-duddy to some younger sculptors, particularly in the '60s. It might have been otherwise had he behaved like the Great English Artist people were always making him out to be, but he was utterly without pretension, and his zeal for public service, as long...
...Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary . . . Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion. On their shoulders and backs they carry heavy steel tripods, machine-gun barrels, leaden boxes of ammunition. Their feet seem to sink into the ground from the overload they are bearing. They don't slouch. It is the terrible deliberation of each step that spells out their appalling tiredness. Their faces are black and unshaven. They are young men, but the grime and whiskers and exhaustion make them look middle-aged . . . All afternoon men keep coming round the hill...
...President Jimmy Carter, who was visiting the country and happened to be attending, walked out in protest. "The problem is not our political differences," said Redman, "but Zimbabwe's unwillingness to conduct its relations with us according to accepted norms of diplomatic civility and practice." Those norms did not seem to be the style in Harare last week...