Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Stael-Holstein, who was dispossessed by the revolution. He was very tall, with a booming voice, a lyrical intelligence and the manic- depressive character of so many Russians, now lethargic and broody, now consumed with febrile energy. Desperately poor most of his life, he was generous to the point of folly; when money came, he threw it away like a cavalryman on a binge. He was acutely conscious of lineage and tradition. The art of the past, one might say, became De Stael's absent father. He began his public career as an abstract painter and backed into figuration, thus...
...biggest question mark hanging over the program is whether TFA teachers will stay in the profession once their two years are up. Some youngsters clearly see the experience as a way station before graduate school or a higher-paying career. TFA supporters downplay the issue of retention. They point out that TFA alumni will be forceful advocates for education whatever their ultimate profession. "These kids are going to be terrific assets to schools whether they teach or not," says Robin Hogen, senior director of Merck & Co., which gave...
Bush's effort to fight back could be costly and ultimately futile since the regulators' diligence from this point on may be judged by how effectively they handle the case against the President's son. His comment that in cities like Denver "everybody has relationships, everybody knows everybody" only adds to the image of insider deals made with government guarantees that privatized profits and socialized losses. Bush must answer the OTS charges at a Sept. 25 administrative hearing in Denver...
...events on the calendar of perestroika had been invested with so much importance as the 28th Congress. It was supposed to mark the long-awaited - turning point, when reformers would finally seize control of party power from entrenched bureaucrats and release the brakes on radical change. Gorbachev would quit straddling the widening gap between the party's fractious wings and align himself once and for all with democratic liberals. There was also speculation that he might step down as General Secretary and devote full attention to his new presidential office, sealing the shift of power away from the party...
...refusing NEA money is wise. Says Jack O'Brien, artistic director of the Old Globe Theater in San $ Diego: "I think it plays right into the hands of the enemies of the NEA. It allows them to say, 'See, these arts groups don't even need it.' The central point is that this system works. By and large, the money goes to the right places, and after two decades there hasn't been a hint of fraud or scandal. What other Government program can say that...