Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between Noel Coward worldliness and Edward Albee combat, hinting at suicide, half attempting murder. In earlier versions of the play, the bloody pathos of opera found a parallel: the abandoned man stabbed his lover, then held him in a last embrace. That ending felt arch. This one feels anticlimactic, void of release. So does the end of an affair, an event McNally chronicles with specific detail and authentic, universal pain...
This summer, Rep. Ronald Dellums (D-Calif.) called for a Pentagon investigation into the Israeli defense firm Tadiran. Dellums said he suspected that the firm had business ties with South Africa, despite an international ban. If these allegations proved true, Dellums said the Pentagon should void its multimillion-dollar defense contract with Tadiran...
Increasingly, the photographers also brought high-speed color film to the fray. By the end of the '70s, color photos of the week's events had become the staple of TIME and Newsweek, which had moved into the void left by the collapsing picture magazines. For many traditionalists, color marked a final capitulation to the values of television. But a group of younger photojournalists would begin to paint the news in bold colors. Like the U.S. after Viet Nam, these new practitioners were no longer satisfied by the old certainties...
...Frank '62 (D-Mass.) said Sunday he would not resign from Congress because of his 1985-1987 relationship with prostitute Steven L. Gobie. Frank has admitted that he paid Gobie and other male prostitutes for sex, hired Gobie as a personal assistant and then used his Congressional position to void some of Gobie's parking tickets. Still unproven are charges that Frank knew that Gobie was operating a prostitution ring out of his home...
...added that if the apathy that now characterizes international attitudes toward conflict in Lebanon extends to the Arab-Israeli struggle, terrorism may begin to fill the void...