Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shadow of the 1960s may also limit student activism on campus. Who wants to be lumped in with blindly idealistic 1960s radicals? Rallies on campus conjure up images of the violent University Hall takeover. These images may provoke nostalgia among reunion alumni but create moral ambivalence in the minds of most of today's students...
...does freer mean better? Can liberalism guarantee artistry? Alas, no. Nor are today's Soviet films likely to be superior to those of the first flush of revolution. Now that the specter of Stalinism has receded, another shadow haunts Soviet filmmakers, and it may be harder to escape. This is the legacy of Sergei Eisenstein, V.I. Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko and Dziga Vertov, the giants of Soviet silent cinema. Their works (October, Mother, Earth, Man with a Movie Camera) remain at the core of every film curriculum; movies are still made in the visual language they helped invent...
...Italian avant-garde before World War I, where this show begins, found itself in a fix under the immense shadow of its own cultural history. Either it made a diverting Oedipal commotion about the loathsome oppressiveness of the past, like the futurists, or immersed itself in poignant reveries about its authoritarian and alienating beauty, like Giorgio de Chirico and his associates in metaphysical painting...
Searles was taken by a telemarketing scam, but he has plenty of company. In the shadow of the fast-growing telemarketing industry, which sold more than $100 billion in legitimate products and services over the phone last year, telephone swindlers are springing up like mushrooms. Telescam artists are bamboozling consumers with pitches about everything from fine art and exotic vacations to time-share condos and precious-metals ventures...
Looking back, British opposition politicians were critical of the authorities' apparent lack of response to the warning. They indignantly demanded an investigation. Among the questions they wanted answered: Was a cover-up under way to protect the Thatcher government? Huffed Frank Dobson, shadow leader of the House of Commons: "When is the Secretary of State ((for transport)) going to come to the House and tell us the truth and the whole truth for the first time...