Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman Lois Brommer added to her strong showing this tall by finishing 37th, and was closely followed by senior Ellen Gallagher who came in 49th and sophomore Kathy Good, who finished 54th...
...aimed primarily at the nation's economic mess. The voters are seen as less interested in blaming anyone than in having something done about the situation. They want unemployment alleviated, the recession ended, the huge deficits curtailed-and they want this done without refueling inflation. That is a tall order, of course, but far from a controversial one. All politicians applaud those goals; the problem is how to reach them...
...surpass them both. Called Enterprise Square, USA, the 60,000-sq.-ft. megastructure on the campus of Oklahoma Christian College (enrollment: 1,700) will be a paean to the free-market system when it opens this week. Attractions range from a 12-ft-wide cash register and 2-ft.-tall puppets to a video-game room where visitors can try their hand at running dozens of different types of firms. There will even be a Hall of Giants in which colossal likenesses of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and other business heroes peer far above the heads of passersby...
Bourgeois's most stringent and satisfactory works tend to be those based on either "primitive" totems or natural forms: coral polyps, breasts, clusters of buds and palps. The totemic pieces cluster sociably together in crowds, tall and etiolated, often made up of worn chips and fragments of wood threaded on a central armature, like shashlik on a skewer, and then painted. Bourgeois likes repetition with small variations: some of her larger pieces, like Number Seventy-Two (The No March), 1972, are composed of hundreds of marble cylinders, their tops lopped and slanted at different angles, clustered on a platform...
Young Brezhnev: Tall, dark-haired and well-dressed, Vladimir Dolgikh, 57, moves graciously at party functions, chatting and smiling with the ease of a youthful Brezhnev. He has traveled more widely in non-Communist-bloc countries-Austria, Algeria, Japan, West Germany-than most of his peers, impressing Western observers as an intelligent manager. Now that he has attained nonvoting membership in the Politburo, he could...