Word: singularability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chance and the gentle and unapologetic Watching the Wheels from the new album, or the gorgeous seasonal anthem, Happy Xmas (War Is Over), which he recorded with Ono in 1972-kept the standard high and his conscience fine-tuned. The political songs were all personal, the intimate songs all singular in their fierce insistence on making public all issues of the heart, on working some common moral out of private pain. Rock music is still benefitting from lessons that Lennon fought hard for, then passed along. All his music seemed to be torn from that small, stormy interior where...
...only thing most Portuguese seemed to agree on was the singular loss in the death of Sá Carneiro, a diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) man who as a political fighter always seemed taller than he really was. Friends and opponents alike recalled that the young Sá Carneiro braved catcalls in the National Assembly to speak out for freedom in the dying days of Portuguese dictatorship. Intolerant of criticism in office, however, he drifted rightward. His campaign for Soares Carneiro was based on a threat to resign as Prime Minister. Justifying such a potentially destabilizing tactic, Sá Carneiro...
...question that was posed but not asked explicitly during this singular evening may be central to Ronald Reagan's presidency. Will the firmness and certainty about opposing the spread of Soviet influence, which Reagan has vowed will be his policy, actually improve the working relationship between the U.S.and U.S.S.R.? Off in another noisy corner of the embassy, a Soviet diplomat pondered the idea and finally declared that there was no difference between Carter and Reagan. Then his expression grew distant and he added, "But at least we know where Reagan stands...
Through all the financial and political scandals in Italy's recent history, the national financial police, the paramilitary Guardia di Finanza, has always been regarded as a singular bastion of rectitude. Thus when retired General Raffaele Giudice, the Guardia's esteemed commander from 1974 to 1978, was recently jailed as a suspected ringleader in a $2.2 billion oil-tax fraud, it was rather like discovering that Michelangelo painted by numbers. Last week, as the scandal spread, four other high-ranking Guardia officers were put under investigation, and Giudice's former chief of staff disappeared before he could...
...which is odd considering that Reeve's singular trait is hyperkinetic innocence Reeve bounds his way through the movie like a retrieve pup, always deferential, smiling at widows and being nice to children. He seems to be a snidely conceived modern-day Horatio Algier hero, neatly market-researched--the ultimate triumph of American Boyhood...