Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face of the true new Labor Party?not of its democrats?but those who have moved further and further left, towards the East European type of economy." Again came a momentary hush, and then Tory M.P.s broke into cheers at this flash of their leader's steel knuckles...
...daunting climate, the remoteness of the location and the size of the undertaking will make this one of the most complex engineering projects ever undertaken. In the harsh winters of the Yamal, roughly 150 miles above the Arctic Circle, rubber turns as hard as armor plating and steel rods snap like peppermint sticks. The permafrost is so thick during most of the year that the toughest of excavating equipment must be used to break through it; yet in summer the ground can turn into a quagmire that blocks both man and machine...
...formidable political force if allied with other dissidents. Last week, Conservative M.P. Robert Hicks suggested that as many as ten to 20 Tories "who are very uneasy about the present strategy being pursued by the [Thatcher] government" might be attracted to a new "third grouping." Liberal Party Leader David Steel, 41, called for the right-wingers to "abandon Labor" and predicted that a new party "could prove an unstoppable combination." The early polls supported him. One survey suggests that a new centrist coalition could win nearly 40% of the popular vote, vs. 31% for the hard-line Tories...
...reputation grazes in the pasture of celebrated oblivion inhabited by many literary Nobel laureates. But his recasting of the Cain and Abel story in turn-of-the-century California deserves better than the ABC version, and indeed it got it in a 1955 film that starred Raymond Massey as steel-spined Adam Trask and James Dean as Cal, his loving renegade...
...Photographer Ara Gallant, being made up for the Italian edition of Vogue. Gallant's apartment is a good setting for Apples; the floors are white, with rivers of fake blood, the living room is solid black, and the dining room, where she will be photographed, has a stainless steel floor and walls made of thousands of tiny mirrors. The photographer, a wiry fellow from the South Bronx with a reputation for freaky brilliance, believes that a photograph should be "a lie with a small measure of truth...