Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when you think about it, the pedagogical possibilities are nothing short of inspiring. A brief conversation after class might stretch to a lengthy interchange ("Professor, do you mind if we continue this over a spot of broccoli-cheese pasta?") A meeting of minds in the wide open spaces of the Freshman Union...
...avoid offering any concessions in his arms-control approach, arguing that no progress at all is preferable to an agreement that might preserve the Soviets' lead in the arms race. The other, centered in the State Department, counseled flexibility if the Soviets should prove willing to open wide-ranging negotiations. Says a top White House aide: "It's the same old story-State versus Defense on the question of whether we should make a proposal to the Soviets...
...pulled on the wheel and the car swung to the right, hitting a parked vehicle." The van was still 30 ft. from the embassy when it exploded, producing a flash and a deafening roar. The façade of the building collapsed, raining masonry and broken glass over a wide area in the residential district...
...stop at the height of her career to play the prankster? Her intent, as she explains in the preface to an upcoming one-volume paperback edition of the Somers novels, was partly to show how difficult it is for the work of unknown authors to attract wide attention. On a more personal level, she wanted to twit the critics who have insisted on pigeonholing her: first as a feminist writer, later as a purveyor of visionary science fiction. "I wanted to be reviewed on merit, as a new writer, without the benefit of a 'name,' " she asserts...
DIED. Richard Basehart, 70, sonorous-voiced actor whose wide-ranging career included such distinctive roles as the dying Scotsman in Broadway's The Hasty Heart, the mournful clown in Fellini's film La Strada, and the stern submarine admiral on television's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. The son of a newspaperman from Zanesville, Ohio, Basehart consistently sought to avoid stereotypes and expand his range as an actor. In later years he used his authoritative baritone to do narrations and readings, as he did at the closing ceremonies...