Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...timing could hardly have been worse for Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey. With the embarrassing Aldrich Ames spy case spread across the nation's front pages last week, Woolsey had to go up to Capitol Hill for one of his public sessions before the House Select Committee on Intelligence. The small hearing room in the Rayburn Building was jammed, and Woolsey's bald head reflected the glare of television lights as he announced he would have nothing to say in open session about the details of the Ames case. The committee chairman, Democrat Dan Glickman of Kansas, accepted...
Each year, the paint is burned off two stone lions that sit at the entrance to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house. But this time the fire spread into the crowd, sending nine students to the hospital with severe burns...
...boring anyway, Malkmus' songs are surreal glimpses into a sensibility to contemporary American life that could only be characterized as genius. He sings about history and culture, and dying, and love, and open wounds. "Take me down to the ridge where the summer ends/We'll watch the city spread out just like a jet's flame..." from "No Life Singed Her" on Slanted is pretty fucking lyrical. His vocal delivery is also sublime: there is something in his voice--Roland Barthes called it the grain--which is just unbelievably communicative and charismatic. Like Lou Reed before...
...Last Sunday, the semi-annual Fashions of The Times magazine hit the stands-always an exciting occurrence. This supplement surprisingly diverges from the Times's traditional style, including as it does a fashion spread entitled "Let Fantasy Fly," which pictures models floating around in the sky, decked out in couture assemblages. The Weirdest shot is of a model in a $1,900 Todd Oldham evening coat who looks like she's about to land on a horse...
...collapsed. Gone were the Staasi, the KGB and the secret police forces of every other fallen communist regime, which in their heyday terrorized ordinary civilians with the knowledge that their words and actions were being watched. Across the East Bloc and around the world, people breathed easier at the spread of freedom and the demise of Big Brother...