Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terra-cotta pots, vivid woven rugs and ceramic tiles of the Santa Fe style, and homebuilders around the country are busy slapping stucco onto plywood and chicken wire to satisfy a growing yen for adobe homes. At the same time, more public buildings are being constructed in a modern flourish on the Old World style of Spain, with arched porticoes, wide, shady courtyards and bubbling fountains. "I like a building that has a lot of romance in it, that isn't so sterile," says Miami's trailblazing architect Bernardo Fort-Brescia, who grew up in Lima, Peru. "There are moments...
...prevail. Businesses and families, to name two, are not necessarily best run by democratic principles. At some point, hierarachy and authority must be relied upon when it comes time to make a decision. More important is the possibility that undemocratic private institutions are necessary for democracy to flourish in the public world of politics...
Cattle rustlers are as much a part of the mythology of the West as hanging judges and gunslingers. Unlike the other characters, though, rustlers still flourish. So much so, explains Bill Slagle, a special investigator for California's Bureau of Livestock Identification, that "there are more cattle stolen today than at the turn of the century...
...hold on to your hats, folks. Turner is back, once again doing what he enjoys most: pushing a big and bold new cable venture. Dubbed, with typical Turner flourish, TNT (Turner Network Television), the new channel will debut on Oct. 3 with a telecast of Turner's favorite movie, Gone With the Wind. After that, it will offer an array of, in Turner's modest description, the "finest programming on this planet," ranging from Charlton Heston in A Man for All Seasons to (Turner hopes) major sports events like the Rose Bowl and the Masters golf tournament. Industry observers...
...jungle out there, teeming with hordes of unseen enemies. Bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites fill the air. They cluster on every surface, from the restaurant table to the living-room sofa. They abound in lakes and in pools, flourish in the soil and disport themselves among the flora and fauna. This menagerie of microscopic organisms, most of them potentially harmful or even lethal, has a favorite target: the human body. In fact, the tantalizing human prey is a walking repository of just the kind of stuff the tiny predators need to survive, thrive and reproduce...