Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during debate over the budget, Trevor S. Blake '00 and Nicholas J. Stone '99 sought to increase the funding for student groups even further by dipping into the 26.25 percent of term-bill income allocated for the council's committees...
Truth be told, it's easier to look like Joe Mantegna than Joe Montana out there when you're surrounded by meatballs, and the polite sports term for the situation in both San Diego and Indianapolis is "rebuilding." And so, revealing the most compelling evidence of an afterlife since true believers saw the image of Jesus on a tortilla, the scheduling gods gave both the Chargers and the Colts a break Oct. 4 by having them play teams they had a prayer against--each other...
...most people will continue to know her under a different name, which is a point of some significance. Prior to her martyrdom, Teresa's name was Edith Stein, and she was born Jewish. The consequences of that status led Jewish leaders last week to term the canonization "problematic," "offensive" and "an attempt to appropriate the Holocaust without coming to grips with it." They see it as part of a dissonant motif in Pope John Paul II's otherwise triumphant symphony of Catholic-Jewish brotherhood--a masterwork that is very much part of his grand plan for the church's millennial...
Serra is more interested in truth than beauty. Particularly the truth of materials. The Russian Constructivists had a term, faktura, meaning the straightforward, logical use of substances--wood, tin, steel, rope, wire--to produce expressive effects on their own material terms. Serra is and always has been fanatical about this. He doesn't paint, polish, grind or otherwise fiddle about with his metal. It rusts naturally and bears the marks of its making, the scrapes, even the claw marks of the grabs that hoisted the plates. And yet these traces, which one might think would be brutal, acquire--given...
...time for Clinton and Congress to make a deal. In exchange for dropping impeachment proceedings, the President would agree to wear Sam Donaldson's toupee for the remainder of his term. Harsh, perhaps, but it should satisfy fair-minded people, and will definitely curtail Clinton's romantic appeal. KEVIN MEEHAN Washington...