Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bane said the center will hold aUniversity-wide seminar on child poverty thisspring, and that she is planning an executiveseminar on the same issue which would bring bothnational and state level government officials tothe center
...exhibit depicts a wide variety of puzzles. On display is a puzzle more sophisticated than the now-ubiquitous jigsaw puzzle, known as a "tangram." The tangram, though used in many disparate cultures, appears in more or less the same form throughout China, Japan and Europe...
...various lovers in the play act like lovesick teenagers, comically defusing potentially tense moments. Portia (Alissa Reiner) and Nerissa (Beth Turner) giggle like schoolgirls at a slumber party while they make fun of Portia's suitors in words and gestures. Chris Duffy's Bassanio is always wide-eyed and bewildered, looking like a teen on a first date. While he declares his love to Portia, Nerissa and Gratiano (John C. Buten) make puppydog eyes at each other and blow kisses from opposite sides of the stage...
THIS is the key to Heritage USA's success. The ministry plays on the wide-eyed dreams of poor folks--luring them in with promises of a cheap vacation in a grandiose building. One elderly woman I met, who had admired Tammy Faye on a local T.V. show years ago, had dragged her husband here for an affordable retirement vacation. Their one-time donation of $1000 was supposed to bring them a room every year for the rest of their lives in the new Tower--only it hasn't been completed yet and construction has been stalled...
Chappaz and his French colleagues feel the same way. "These objects would eventually have been destroyed by the sea," he says. "Why should we simply abandon them?" He adds, "I won't get rich from the Titanic." Indeed, the objects are scheduled to go on a world-wide tour next summer and eventually be lent to various museums for public display...