Word: zigzagged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first meeting with the foreign press, the barrel-chested Namphy exhibited a whimsical personality. He spoke as he cut a zigzag path through a room in the palace filled with busts of past Haitian Presidents. When a woman reporter pressed for specific answers about his plans for the country, Namphy pinched her cheek. Said he: "We have only been the government three days, and those have been holidays. Give us a break...
...experience. At the end of the book, Calvino decides to let the Reader in on his secret. He has thrown in an "Index" at the end of a collection of stories. The index looks like a table of contents in which Calvino reveals that what had seemed like a zigzag wandering from beach to shop to zoo is actually a highly formalized pattern. Calvino assigns to each chapter a combination of the numbers one, two, and three, like the combination of a lock. Each number corresponding to a different kind of experience. Yet even as he lets the Reader peek...
...basic states' rights issue involved is an uncommonly volatile one. The now reversed 1976 decision itself reversed a 1968 decision, a constitutional zigzag that scholars believe has never before occurred. And another zag may not be far off. Given the probability that President Reagan will make at least one new court appointment, many observers predict that the states' righters may soon regain control. "The majority thinking in this case is doomed," says Velvel. Indeed, in a surprisingly candid judicial version of "the South will rise again," Justice William Rehnquist, author of the 1976 decision, last week wrote tersely...
...torch across the nation, through hundreds of cities, by night and day. The idea provoked considerable derision. But it was a public relations masterstroke, a pageant in harmony with an emotional need vibrating at that moment in the American character. Ueberroth felt the vibration. The torch, slowly making its zigzag way across the land, became one of the unforgettable images...
...spent the '20s in provincial Finland, designing for towns. His buildings are modern all right, sleek and sensible and just a bit Martian, but Aalto never took the final vows of modernism. Strict symmetry and monoliths left him cold. Rather, an Aalto building is apt to swell or zigzag confoundingly, to have lines and textures that seem more botanical and geological than geometrical. Ahead of his time, he declined to enforce the brittlest dogmas of the new. Thirty years before the phrase was coined, Aalto was a postmodernist, the first...