Word: totality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former kid herself (in Amherst, Mass., in the 1950s), she wondered what it was like to grow up in a world vastly different from the one she knew as a youngster. Ludtke located the five marvelous children whose lives form the centerpiece of the stories and spent a total of four months living with them. "My interest in children's issues began with a teenage-pregnancy story that I helped report in 1985," she relates. "The experience convinced me that for all the work of sociologists, psychiatrists and researchers, children are best able to articulate what makes them...
...slow chewing at the motif, his persistence, his anxiety, his search for a sculptural grandeur in bodies and landscape (faceted on the surface, dense as limestone below) became, for Braque, a moral absolute. Cezanne's greatness lay in his "classical impersonality," opening a way to what Braque called the "total possession of things." A weakness of the Guggenheim show is that it contains none of the paintings from 1908-09 with which, at L'Estaque in the south and the village of La Roche-Guyon outside Paris, Braque dug himself into and then out of Cezanne. Nor does it have...
Even if a cease-fire takes hold, however, the long-term outlook for petroleum prices is far from settled. Economists estimate that the two countries will need a total of at least $300 billion to rebuild their ravaged economies, twice their annual gross national products. The simplest solution is to sell more oil. Analysts predict that Iraq could nearly double its current production of 2.4 billion a day by 1990; Iran's daily capacity might jump from 2.5 million to 6 million. If they pump that much oil to pay for reconstruction, prices will plunge...
Party structure. Jackson selected New Orleans Mayor Sidney Barthelemy for the new position of party vice chairman for voter registration. Jesse Jackson Jr. was named as an at-large D.N.C. member; of the 20 new at-large members, twelve are from Jackson's camp (new at-large total...
Another point of contention is that many minimum-wage earners come from middle-class homes and are working for pocket change. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 4.7 million minimum wagers. Heads of households represent less than 25% of the total, and teenagers 37%. Says William Dunkelberg, dean of the School of Business Administration at Temple University in Philadelphia: "There are better ways to help the poor than with the shotgun approach of a minimum wage...