Word: encompasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside, often as uneasily as Percy's protagonist in The Moviegoer, "no more able to be in the world than Banquo's ghost." Like the disease it fought, Saranac was eventually undone by antibiotics. But for some 70 years, it was a rare arena that managed to encompass the arts of healing and high drama. So does the book that bears its name...
...records encompass only half of Anderson's talents, because they can only document the sounds of her work...
...Dworkin, the Indianapolis ordinance targeted materials that showed women in bondage or that treated pain and humiliation as sexual turn-ons. But more sweepingly, it forbade showing women "as sexual objects for domination, conquest, violation, exploitation, possession or use." A federal appeals court was concerned that the ordinance might encompass everything from the ! Iliad to Barbarella, to say nothing of Leda and the Swan...
Battle's range spans two and a half octaves, from a low A to a high E. Her voice has a color and flexibility that allow her to go beyond soubrette roles to encompass the death-defying coloratura declamations of Handel's Semele, or dramatically richer lyric parts like Melisande in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, which she is now studying. That radiant sound emerges from a 5-ft. 3-in., 120-lb. frame like Athena leaving the head of Zeus: pure and full blown, and shimmering like celestial chimes. "Her voice is remarkably beautiful," says Met Music Director James...
...symposium, the Center for European Studies sponsored a conference on feminism whose topics included "Varieties of Feminisms." The pluralism is crucial. Feminism has come a long way from its associations of militant castration tactics and aesthetics of neuterdom; the term itself is an outdated one which cannot encompass the scope of cultural impact its present activity implies...