Word: statically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...puts restraints on our standard of living, and it makes it much more difficult for us to take care of a variety of other needs." Gafny and other economic experts are just as worried about the fact that Israel's gross national product is now almost static. Last year, it rose by a mere 0.9%, the lowest increase in six years. To make matters worse, unemployment, never a worrisome phenomenon before, grew by 67% in 1980 alone, and now stands...
...viet Union and Eastern Europe even government officials listen to find out what happening in their countries. The Kremlin was so annoyed by short-wave reporting of the Polish crisis that last August, for the first time in seven years, it began wide-scale jamming, filling the air with static to block out those irritating signals from the West...
...series begins and ends in Paris. The Eiffel Tower (1889), that "static totem of the cult of dynamism," as Host Robert Hughes calls it, is a symbol of the ebullient optimism that ushered in the new age of machine worship. The Beaubourg Center (1977), which looks like a trite and showy illustration from a science fiction magazine, becomes a symbol of the decline of that exhausted era. In between is a terra incognita that we may think we know-the art of the 20th century...
Some women, however, while they appreciate Wellesley's charm, still feel that a lot of its perquisites are artificial and unnecessary. "The alums have a lot of power--they replace the worn carpeting, make sure the lands are perfectly manicured, and work on ensuring that Wellesley remains static and unchanging," Trippe says. "In the springtime I can go out and pick bunches of azaleas and pussywillow and bring them back to my room because the campus is like a specimen or botanical garden. But then, you begin to wonder if it's natural for everything to be that perfect...
...collective skill in the runners is not reflected throughout the whole piece, and one is left wishing that the needleworkers had had better designs to work on than Chicago's. Nevertheless, The Dinner Party will clearly acquire what is, for a static work of art, a huge audience. It is simple, didactic, portentous, gaudily evangelical and wholly free of wit or irony; it is to feminism what the big dioramas of the 19th century were to American curiosity about landscape, or war memorials to patriotism...