Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite this month's celebration, the cathedral is not really complete. Stairwells and crannies are embellished by innumerable carvings, tapestries and decorative windows, but more remain to be installed. Outside, the final phase is the erection of twin 234-ft. towers on the west end, meant to complement the central Gloria in Excelsis Tower, completed in 1964 and bedecked with 396 angel heads. If all goes well, the entire structure will be finished ahead of schedule...
...film industry, "On the Future of the Movies." And when she's in top form, Kael merits the hackneyed testimonial, "she cares enough to be brilliant." Hopefully she will weather the hyperbolic fuss over film critics (these are only movie reviews, after all) and get over her recent phase of open-mouthed raptures. Reeling brings together another thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating round of reviews, and hopefully Kael will sustain enough independence and determination to prod our thinking for a few more volumes worth of reviews...
...triggered an order by President Gerald Ford to evacuate any U.S. citizen from Lebanon who wished to leave. With Beirut airport closed, the mode would be a convoy to Damascus, about 90 miles away via back roads, presumably under the protection of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the first phase of the trip, the Syrian army, which has occupied much of Lebanon, over the second stage. An 18-vehicle trial run organized by the British embassy brought some 70 British subjects and a few Americans safely out of Lebanon. It also carried the flag-draped aluminum coffins of Meloy...
...jarring primary struggle that ended with the presidential nomination still maddeningly eluding both contenders obviously was only a prelude to Phase 2 of the 1976 campaign?an intense, even frantic pursuit of a relative handful of delegates who now may determine the nominee...
Senator Player: A dashing young man who attracts Liz because of his famous family name and tanned, muscular body, he is a sort of Phase II Sincere. As soon as the wife and kiddies are off on vacation. Player asks her up to his Georgetown house -and guess what happens. Their relationship lasts off and on for a year...