Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that time, Cambridge desperately needed revenue, and Sullivan--who had been fired once from the city manager spot--was seen as a competent fiscal manager...
With its votes, Congress rejected raises proposed by a presidential commission and endorsed by then-President Ronald W. Reagan. Senators and representatives would have seen their salaries increased from...
Observant readers will shrewdly connect the smiling fellow at right, surrounded by assault rifles, with this week's cover story on the proliferation of guns in America. Shrewd connection, but wrong. That's New Delhi bureau chief Edward W. Desmond, who has seen his share of these weapons and the wars they fuel in south Asia since his arrival last October. Two weeks ago, Desmond managed to fly to Kabul, the Afghan capital, which faces a turbulent future as Soviet soldiers withdraw and the rebels move in. The nine- year-old war has proved a special challenge to Western reporters...
...that dreams were superior facts, the incarnation of desire and possibility. But it needed a system of images, and that is what Dali found through what he called his "critical-paranoiac" method. In essence, it meant looking at one thing and seeing another -- an extended version of the face seen in the fire. Heads turn into a distant city, a landscape resolves itself as a still life, inexplicable combinations are seen to lurk magically beneath the skin of the world...
...poignantly aware that all the rejuvenating creams and unguents in the world are useless against the abrasions of time. Only two devices have ever been known to arrest the years: memory and art. She puts both to use in this quirky, brilliant evocation of a childhood seen from the middle of the journey...