Word: properous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic responsibility is to make sure that the University complies with the law [Section 504 of the 1974 Rehabilitation Act]," Thornburgh says. She says that her task is to encourage people with disabilities to apply for work at Harvard and to make sure that the proper accommodations are made for them...
...would have stood up for what I believed in, like you did, but then again, I'm not half as brave as you are." Nearly all had questions: "Do you have nightmares?" "Do you still have scars from the handcuffs and the kicking?" "Did you ever get a proper apology...
...Braque? Here is one of the great pioneers of modern painting: the man who, with Picasso, invented cubism; who then painted some of the most exquisitely felt and wrought pictures of our century; in whom the classicist, Cartesian strain in French painting came to a peak. Yet the last proper American survey of Braque (1882-1963) was almost 40 years ago. Since then there have been shows, very beautiful ones (how could they not be?), of this or that aspect of Braque. But the whole elephant? Never...
...keep knockin' but you can't come in. 8:35 p.m. Monday: Senator Al Gore, Wife Tipper and two daughters arrive at the gate of the Omni. The guard stops them; none of them have the proper credentials. Gore is irked. Tipper, sporting a button picturing Dukakis, Jackson and her husband, shouts, "Power to the people!" Gore tells her to be quiet. She shouts it again. Gore deputizes someone to go inside to get the proper credentials. As they are waiting, Tipper says, "Let's go dancing" -- but presumably not to rock music with suggestive lyrics. The right credentials...
...lets you change the channel if you don't get what you want. And many movies these days are less adolescent than infantile, spinning fables in which youth is its own reward. The summer hit Big teaches that a 13-year-old boy can find love with the proper career woman and succeed in business without really trying. Who'd ever care to be a grownup when childhood is portrayed as so pure, so powerful, so enlightenedly selfish...