Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later a scenarist for western movies, McMurtry confects a folklore about the making of folklore. By adding his special glow to long- forgotten pulp fiction and the advent of a machine that projects our fantasies, he answers the fundamental question, Why would a nation that strongly believed in its manifest destiny enshrine in its legends a nihilistic punk who had no future...
Despite the renovation, a sense of Manifest Destiny grandeur and industrial heft remains. Diesel locomotives will use the station as well as croissant- eating lawyers. "This isn't a suburban mall," says Benjamin Thompson, the renovation and revitalization architect, based in Cambridge, Mass., who designed the new retail spaces. "This is Washington, D.C. We wanted to maintain Union Station as a transportation center." Until Amtrak service is fully restored, within a year, rail passengers will continue to use a dreary annex built in 1975, when Park Service officials turned the main station into a tourist-information bureau. The National Visitor...
Long-standing attitudes about the proper role of women also manifest themselves in a variety of fears. Horner, an associate professor of psychology and social relations, described a number of phenomena afflicting women, including fears of both success and failure, and the "imposter phenomenon," the tendency for highly successful women to disown their own accomplishments...
...this," the Articles of Impeachment read, "Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office...
...rich visual concepts that the music offers manifest themselves in the little scenes which appear between songs. They range from a conversation at a newsstand (which reappears on the set during "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man") to a scene where Prince, resplendent in his peach-colored glasses, sits in a chair and reminisces; the rock video "U Got The Look" plays in his head...