Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was the post-Camp David Jimmy Carter, a President eager to assert his leadership and to lash out at critics, of whom, a coast-to-coast survey by TIME bureau chiefs showed, there were a formidable number. The subject of his opening cannonade was the oil industry's effort to get Congress to reduce the windfall profits tax, which Carter hopes to use to finance a multibillion-dollar energy program. Said Carter: "There will be a massive struggle to gut the windfall profits tax. I want to serve notice tonight that I will do everything in my power...
...played superbly in the film by the Grand Hotel on Michigan's famed Mackinac Island, the playwright falls for a 1912 portrait. Before you can say Clark Kent-poof-he goes back 67 years in time to see if he has the chance of a ghost with the subject, played by Jane Seymour...
...groups backed by Ralph Nader, who has encouraged "truth in testing" campaigns in California, Colorado, Texas, Ohio and Massachusetts, as well as New York. Carey's move gave Nader his first signal victory, and last week Nader called the decision a "turning point in the national campaign to subject the testing industry to public scrutiny," adding, "ETS has been judging the worth of students for years. Now the students are getting a chance to judge the worth of ETS." The legislation also requires testing organizations to submit to government agencies any studies of how validly their tests measure aptitude...
...take the SAT. In addition, the frequency of makeup test days and special testing sessions for the handicapped may be cut. There was also opposition to the new law from the American College Testing Program and the Law School Admission Council, whose admissions tests are now subject to New York's new statute, as are medical-and dental-school tests and the Graduate Record exams...
...keyed, are owls, not peacocks. They are single images, enumerations of ordinary objects-a battered pair of black shoes, a stoneware jug, or a bunch of asparagus tied in blue paper set down with an odd, veiled discomposure. The size of the painting laconically follows the size of its subject. Isolated and closely scrutinized, these motifs give Arikha's canvases a likeness (insofar as painting can ever resemble writing) to the elliptical sentences of his friend Samuel Beckett, imbued with a hard-won sense of the difficulty of any kind of description...