Word: scope
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Director John Tillinger evokes fine performances: Moore has never been ; better. This is the play Gurney's fans have been waiting for him to write, funny and inventive but also bravely expansive in scope. Gurney once described his comic gift as "dancing in chains." In Sweet Sue he breaks free. -- W.A.H.II
...firsts in this 26th Cup, which is longer, larger, more expensive and more upset-prone than any in history. Not only is the competition being held away from the gentle breezes of the U.S. East Coast for the first time since 1870, but it has also widened dramatically in scope. A record 13 syndicates from six nations have so far spent an unprecedented $200 million for the right to challenge Australia for the Cup. There are two syndicates each from Italy and France as well as ones from Canada, Britain and New Zealand. In addition to the N.Y.Y.C., U.S. syndicates...
...coincidence that the last two Republicans elected President have both been involved in scandals that question the nature and scope of the executive, nor should it be taboo to mention that fact. The coming of the Nixon and Reagan scandals mimics the rise of the fervently ideological wing of the Republican party...
...full, but the net effect is that the South African government now controls everything that is published or broadcast from that country. The government's intent is clear: to censor the fact of censorship, to so limit access to information that whites will have no idea of the scope of unrest in Black areas. That goal may seem implausible to foreigners, but apartheid means "separation" for a reason. With few exceptions, there is no indication of unrest in the areas in which whites live and work...
Meanwhile, Orsay found its director at the Beaubourg: Francoise Cachin, a brilliant, Sorbonne-educated art historian whose specialty is Manet. The first issue she had to settle was the scope of the museum. What did 19th century mean? There was no way the Louvre was going to surrender its masterpieces of early 19th century classicism and romanticism. So Orsay's program must begin after the peak of the romantic movement. Cachin, Laclotte and the new museum's staff wanted to start in 1863 -- the emblematic year that saw the first Salon des Refuses, Manet's epochal Le Dejeuner...