Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thomas O'Brien and Radcliffe Treasurer Louis R. Morrell okayed a Chamber of Commerce petition protesting the controversial zoning amendments. The proposed changes would require builders to provide low cost housing in return for the strain their developments put on the tight Cambridge housing market...
...quite. The withdrawal scheme was opposed by hard-line Likud members of the unity government, led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, thus putting a heavy strain on the coalition. Moreover, the decision to leave Lebanon is fraught with uncertainties and hazards. It marked a victory of sorts for Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has opposed a negotiated pullback agreement between Israel and Lebanon. But, above all, Jerusalem's move shifted a new and perhaps unbearable burden onto the frail government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel: the maintenance of peace and order in southern Lebanon after...
Hernmarck's work often conveys high emotional drama. In Sailing, which she created in 1976 for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, it is the drama of grand romantic painting. A ship's sails billow to their utmost; the sailors on deck strain as fiercely as the wind itself. By contrast, her giant (20 ft. by 11 ft.) tapestries Poppies and Bluebonnets (1979) for an office building in Dallas have the lazy, midsummer-day haze of a Monet...
...Almost a century of the art on film --from the cooch dancers of the 1890s to the breakdancers of the 1980s, from the debonair Fred Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night...
...Almost a century of the art on film --from the cooch dancers of the 1890s to the breakdancers of the 1980s, from the debonair Fred Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night...