Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black-and-white murals have been hanging in Washington's state legislative building since 1981, but most lawmakers have never seen them. Commissioned at a cost of $100,000, The Twelve Labors of Hercules touched off a storm of complaints over their graphic depictions of what critics called kinky sex and death. To quell the controversy, officials covered the murals with gold- colored drapes in 1982. Meanwhile, artist Michael Spafford filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the removal of his work...
...company this will produce. No one knows where this sort of runaway sled ends up," said Richard Christian, associate dean at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Declared a Los Angeles-based securities analyst: "This is going to be the greatest battle that Hollywood has ever seen...
...July 5 deadline that Paramount set on its bid for Time shares. The letter added, "Hostile takeovers are a little like wars: once they start, it's impossible to tell where they may end. The full effect of what you've set in motion remains to be seen...
...brilliant bitchery." Last week a Vatican official derided Cornwell's findings as "lamentably gossipy." But disturbing as the author's conclusions may be, not everyone was displeased. "It's much better to appear a little ridiculous," said Vittoria Marigonda, secretary to Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, "than to be seen as a bunch of murderers...
...many, the most anguishing decision is whether to return to China when their studies are completed. Now that Chinese authorities are tracking down the leaders of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, students who took part in protests in the West may also be seen as infected with the disease of democracy. One young adviser to the Tiananmen Square demonstrators was Liu Xiaobo, a lecturer at Beijing Normal University; he had returned to China last winter from a fellowship at Columbia University...