Word: show
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joke is making the rounds in Hanoi: Viet Nam has done everything it can to lure the Americans to open an embassy there, and nothing has worked; the only option left is to declare war on the U.S., then immediately surrender and count on the beneficence that Americans show those they have defeated...
...should just . . . give people their money back and let them educate themselves or start their own schools. That would be one radical way to have accountability." Irritated White House officials scrambled to dissociate themselves from Bennett's impolitic outburst. But if the President and the Governors fail to show concrete results in this latest round of school reform, perhaps parents will be ready to take Bennett up on his offer...
...secrecy reinforced the shame: as recently as the 1970s, some delivery-room nurses covered the mirrors and draped towels in front of a woman giving up her child, or even blindfolded her, so she could not see the baby. In the nursery the infants were marked DNS (do not show) or DNP (do not publish the mother's name). Says Rappaport: "Adoption was considered a really sick process...
FRANS HALS, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The great 17th century Dutch portraitist's bravura brushwork and piercing insight still bring figures to startling life. Incredibly, this is the first major show devoted to him outside the Netherlands. Through...
...themselves. That helps sustain the cowboy myth that nature is a neutral, unchanging backdrop. Moreover, evolution seems to have wired our brains to respond to rapid changes, the snap of a twig or a movement in the alley, and to ignore slow ones. When these consequences do start to show up, we don't notice them. Anyone who has ever been amazed by an old photograph of himself or herself can attest to the merciful ignorance of slow change, that is, aging -- Where did those clothes and that strange haircut come from? Was I really that skinny...