Word: singular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government crackdown on the movement. Liu Binyan was there to express his displeasure that the movement failed to advance the cause of democracy as far as it could have and failed also to leave a legacy of writings and ideas to carry on after the end of the singular Tiananmen Square gathering...
Experts found no shortage of culprits to blame for the latest debacle. A series of downbeat realizations converged on Friday, ranging from signs of a new burst of inflation to sagging corporate profits to troubles in the junk- bond market that has fueled major takeovers. The singular event that shook investors was the faltering of a $6.75 billion labor-management buyout of UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, the second largest U.S. carrier. "That's when all hell broke loose," said Robert Newman, a floor trader for Equitrade Partners. "It was very reminiscent of something I do not care...
Most winners of the Nobel Prize respond with joy and gratitude to the singular, once-in-a-lifetime honor. But Norway's Trygve Haavelmo bluntly criticized the award last week after he was named the 1989 laureate in economics. Haavelmo, 77, a modest and shy University of Oslo professor emeritus, told a reporter, "I don't like the idea of such prizes...
...still the movie does not work. Its true story is too singular to serve as the basis for moral generalizations. The ideas advanced by the film are, in any case, not significantly different from the ones put forward by opponents of the war while it was going on. But it is its distant and curiously monotonous tone that finally betrays Casualties of War. It numbs the conscience instead of awakening...
Mallarme had written of the impalpable reality that poetry must somehow approach: "To conjure up the negated object, with the help of allusive and always indirect words, which constantly efface themselves in a complementary silence . . . comes close to the act of creation." Wilmarth's singular project was to create the spirit of reverie that surrounds the "negated object," but in that most object-affirming of arts, sculpture, and to seek its poetic effects in heavy industrial materials -- steel and glass. Typically, Wilmarth, a Californian who spent most of his working life in New York City, adopted...