Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thousands of miles in America, mainly in the South, looking and interviewing and listing. The result opened at the Corcoran last month: "Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980." Fifty years, 20 artists (most of them completely unknown outside their own communities), and almost 400 works-this is a singular act of discovery. Lovers of the quaint need not attend, for there is something fiery, marvelous and strong every ten feet...
...announced good intentions, the Reagan White House has a singular gift for trampling on the sensitivities of black Americans. Last week the Reaganauts stumbled again. The White House nominated the Rev. B. Sam Hart, 52, a little-known evangelical minister and broadcaster from Philadelphia, to serve on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an advisory committee responsible for monitoring the enforcement of civil rights laws...
...show was conceived as a singular crossbreed of documentary and star-studded entertainment, politics and theatrical pizazz. The script called for Orson Welles to growl out passages from John Donne between scenes of labor union rallies in Chicago and West Germany; President Reagan and a dozen other heads of state to deliver speeches; and a New Jersey native-Frank Sinatra-to sing Ever Homeward, in Polish. According to the ICA, the program aimed to "reflect the widespread international concern for the plight of the people of Poland." ICA Director Charles Wick, who once worked as an arranger for the late...
...ultimately, about the role of the press today. McCarthy and the Press repeatedly faults the vast majority of journalists for failing to add "news analysis"--an organized presentation of relevant facts or ideas--to their mechanical reporting of McCarthy's accusations, and he argues that most journalists displayed a singular lack of curiosity during McCarthy's first years of invective. They failed, for example, even to find out the identities of those card-carrying Communists. Bayley also highlights distortedly melodramatic performances of the media, points out that many headlines and broadcasted leads exaggerated McCarthy's charges; Senate to Probe Department...
...mechanism may provide insights to the response in humans. So useful are cats that tens of thousands of them disappear into the nation's labs for experiments each year. Although researchers have studied cat brains with infinite care, none have discovered the secret of the cat's singular sound. The apparatus and meaning of purring remain a mystery of feline behavior, one of many unexplained traits that remain as folklore...