Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Santa stationed outside of Manhattan's Bloomingdale's for the Volunteers of America never received such a training "I don't say anything to anyone--if they're going to give, they'll give," he says, identifying himself only as a professional truck driver. "Poor people tend to give more because they know what it's like to need," he adds...
...decide on its own what course to follow; if Israelis have had enough of Lebanon, the territories and Begin, they have the internal procedures to say so and act on their will. Far from weakening the current government, outside pressure in this case will only bolster it because Israelis tend to stand more strongly behind their leaders when they feel isolated...
...simulated performance clips tend to be dull and repetitive: lip syncs sink clips. But the best videos enhance the mood of a song and expand TV's generally unadventurous visual vocabulary. Nightmarish images from Billy Joel's subconscious accompany his shouts in the song Pressure; Stevie Nicks floats through a moving Magritte painting in Fleetwood Mac's Gypsy...
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...
...program of across-the-board rearmament have all been intended to impress on the Soviets that they have a choice. They can moderate their conduct-which, by implication, means choosing more moderate rulers-and thereby earn a respite from conflict abroad that may be their last chance to tend to their home front. Or, if the succession struggle is resolved in favor of ideologues and expansionists, they can continue pursuing an aggressive course and thereby risk an almost inevitable, potentially cataclysmic confrontation with the U.S. On top of that, the stagnation and deterioration of their economy will accelerate as more...