Word: variants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anything, lethal injections, firing squads, and electrocutions will soon prove too boring for American audiences. After the novelty wears off, Nielsen ratings will begin to drop, and the state's "producers" will have to come up with a more captivating formula. The process might degenerate into a variant of "Wide World of Sports"--gladitorial contests, or maybe criminals fighting off wild animals, running hundred-yard dashes through machine-gun fire, attempting broad jumps across impossibly wide flaming pits--a veritable Olympics! Can one popularize state executions...
...they were no longer slaves. The signs of class he so detested in his own country had disappeared: "Except for a small number of women and foreigners there were no 'well-dressed' people at all. Practically everyone wore rough working-class clothes, or blue overalls, or some variant of the militia uniform. There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting...
...haunting text by Andre Gide the piece tells a variant of the old seasonal myth: In this version, Demeter's daughter sees in a vision the sadness of Pluto's Shades and descends to comfort them. Deceived by Mercury into eating six pomegranate seeds, she is bound forever to the Underworld but then seems another vision the sorrow of Winter brought about by her absence. The poem's reaffirmation of cyclical obligations shines through in the last scene, as Persephone miraculously returned home descends again to Hades to fulfill her eternal responsibilities...
...withholding issue now goes back to the Senate Finance Committee, which will decide this week whether to recommend acceptance of the House repeal in conference committee. Committee Chairman Robert Dole of Kansas, who filibustered a repeal effort in the Senate, is expected to report out a strengthened variant of a Senate "compromise." passed 91 to 5 last month, that would postpone withholding for four years and, in the interim, step up tax enforcement. Reagan, who in the past has pledged to veto any attempt to repeal or postpone withholding, appeared to soften his stance in the face of the veto...
Jiangsu isn't a variant of Chow Mein, but the second-best hoop squad in the People's Republic of China, which beat a visiting Harvard team...