Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, the art world is buzzing with speculation about what is not on the canvas. Friends openly debate whether Wyeth is philandering or faithful. Why did he keep the collection hidden from his wife? And why did he wait so long to release it? Says Artist George Segal: "There's an anguish any artist has between wanting to keep private and wanting to show. It's internal warfare. Showing new paintings is like dropping your pants in public...
...moment, Mubarak will have to depend on the ability of his long- suffering people to muddle through the current crisis. Though the Egyptians are renowned for their patience, they will not wait forever for economic improvements. "The doomsayers have been around for quite a while," says one Western analyst. "But this time, the day of reckoning may come...
...deter the lucky 82,699 ticket holders. They filed into Wembley past souvenir hawkers peddling T shirts, caps and, of all things, Confederate flags, one of the odder English associations with American football. A comfortingly familiar concert by the Band of the Grenadier Guards filled some of the pregame wait. Culture shock began in earnest with the arrival of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, who romped onto the field and high-kicked for the astonished audience. "What is this?" a Brit demanded, as he riffled furiously through his program book...
...bargaining chip." Even that was not enough for some of SDI's most ardent supporters. Just before his speech, eight conservative Congressmen met with Reagan to press him to deploy portions of a space defense as soon as any are ready rather than wait into the 1990s for the full system to be operational. In his later talk, the President in effect said no to that demand also: "I know there are those who are getting a bit antsy, but to deploy systems of limited effectiveness now would deter or divert limited funds and delay our main research." Critics...
...clots in the brain, in the devices' crevices and along the path blood travels. Says Dr. Lyle Joyce, who assisted DeVries at the first Jarvik-7 implant operation on Barney Clark and is now head of the artificial-heart program at the Minneapolis Heart Institute: "It is time to wait for new modifications of the Jarvik...