Word: spaciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events that have shaken the Soviet bloc in 1989, none is more fraught with history -- or more implausible -- than the polite encounter that will take place this week in Vatican City. There, in the spacious ceremonial library of the 16th century Apostolic Palace, the czar of world atheism, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit the Vicar of Christ, Pope John Paul II. Before delivering formal speeches in the presence of their entourages, the two East Europeans will sit down alone to chat in Russian without interpreters...
...outline this story is pure Malamud. It sets a sympathetic vision of the underdogs and downtrodden against a backdrop of myth and spacious possibilities. When the narrative breaks off, the good guys are losing, a situation that is also typical of its author. But in the notes he left for the remaining four chapters, Malamud outlined a way for Yozip to be of further, and possibly victorious, service to those who had adopted...
...catalog of dead colonialism in the Sahara, Fata Morgana focuses on the adandoned debris from World War II, the mad-magical strain in both Black and German tourists digging for ethnic information. With his cache of expressionistic ploys, Herzog has turned a placid and lyrical desert landscape into a spacious gliding visual-aural metaphor...
...Administration prefers a less spacious definition. But attempts to limit the scope of the anathema make it meaningless. According to State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer, assassination is the "unlawful killing of particular individuals for political purposes." The key word is "unlawful." It's not unlawful to kill combatants in wartime, or even to kill noncombatant civilians in the course of a legitimate military operation. It is "self- defense" to kill a head of state who is masterminding terrorist operations that threaten the national security of the U.S., the argument goes. But if the assassination ban forbids nothing that...
...child-rearing problems encountered by the Texas couples are not typical, but no one denies that parents who take on special-needs kids must enter the relationship with their eyes open. The minimum requirements are a level head and a spacious heart. Susan Edelstein, a clinical social worker at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is supervising a study of children exposed to drugs, has a list of the mental and spiritual resources that the parents of such children should have. It could apply to anyone who takes on a special-needs kid. "You've got to be optimistic...