Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...factions and distinctions can also be described in terms of personalities. Falwell is leading a church movement increasingly known as the New Fundamentalism. It seeks to shed the reputation for bigotry and cultural narrowness without giving an inch on the Bible issues. Falwell wants to build spiritual alliances with as many of the moderate Evangelicals as possible. But even without the furor over his foray into South Africa, he faces enormous obstacles in building support among black Protestants. In the 1960s, the ex- segregationist did nothing to advance civil rights. Today his right-wing political agenda does not fit that...
This week St. Louisans will celebrate the opening of the most ambitious of all their proliferating preservation projects. The ornate Union Station and its glorious steel train shed, abandoned by Amtrak seven years ago, have been restored and turned into a complex of restaurants, promenades, 80 shops and a 550-room hotel. Under the far end of the shed, a boat pond and beer garden (Did someone say Budweiser?) are to be ready soon. The project cost $135 million...
When they first come out of the ground, they are still wearing their golden- brown nymphal skins, which they shed. After crawling out of that wingless skin, which splits neatly down the back, the handsome adults sit quietly and visibly on tree trunks tentatively trying their new wings. Then they set out for a few weeks of courtship and mating. During those weeks the males sing, the paired couple reproduce and then they...
...that events will be overdramatized. "On the one hand, we do not want to inflame emotions," says Rather. "But on the other hand, we do not want to dilute the hard reality." Aside from reassuring relatives and other Americans about the condition of the hostages, last week's coverage shed light for Washington on who was holding the 40 captives. One person in particular picked up some details: asked about whether the three-member TWA crew was still on the plane, Ronald Reagan said yes, he had seen...
...into emblems. The elliptical lenses of the nursemaid's spectacles, for example, turn into bigger ellipses, without a face behind them; like punctuation marks commanding one to focus and look, they stud the painting of the '70s. Muybridge's wrestlers become Bacon's signs for sexual battle. But they shed their documentary purpose, and in doing so open the way to another discourse of figures. When impelled by strong emotion -- as in the Triptych May-June 1973, which commemorates the suicide of his friend George Dyer in a Paris hotel two years before -- the "shocking" images in Bacon are raised...