Word: vane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardware set up on the roof of the Science Center includes an anemometer, a thermometer, a wind vane, a barometer, a rain gauge and a hydrometer...
...with his Fish, 1930: a 6-ft. blade of mottled, blue-gray marble, which floats above a circular "pond" of creamy limestone. It resembles a large weather vane, and, in fact, it is mounted on hidden ball bearings, so that it can turn. The form of the blade is very pure and yet somehow indeterminate; it has no trace of fins, gills or other fishy attributes. It is more like the shadow of a fish in perfectly clear water, a gray flicker cast on the riverbed below, whose pebbles are suggested by the white streaks and mottling within the stone...
...once Deng is gone, rivals within the group can be expected to go gunning for Jiang, and he will have to fight to stay on top. Many China experts predict that Jiang will not prevail in an all-out test of strength. The affable apparatchik has been nicknamed Weather Vane because he tends to swing with the prevailing political wind...
...precision can be too clinical, as in the depiction of a character from The Vane Sisters: "The interval between her thick black eyebrows was always shiny, and shiny too were the fleshy volutes of her nostrils." But elsewhere there is divinity in the details: "The roofs blaze like oblique, sunblinded mirrors. A winged woman stands on a windowsill washing the panes. She bends over, pouts, brushes a strand of flaming hair from her face. The air is faintly redolent of gasoline and lindens...
George Bush's chances in November depend heavily on whether Sheldon proves to be a weather vane for one of the country's most important voting blocs. Millions of white evangelicals returned to their roots to elect Carter 16 years ago. They changed allegiance again in 1980, helping to give Ronald Reagan and Bush large majorities. This year there is some wavering among the faithful. One reason is mild disappointment with Bush. Another is Bill Clinton's and Al Gore's status as churchgoing Southern Baptists. If Clinton and Gore convert their religious ties into enough votes, the Democrats...