Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hate the coyote; we admire and respect him. However, our family operation has just about reached the end of its financial rope in our ability to sustain the ecological balance with the contribution we have made in ewes and lambs to the coyote. We plan to abandon raising sheep and join those who would have them become an endangered species in America...
...century. It had enough in common with surrealism, which it predated by 30 years, to be regarded as its precursor. For though the surrealists took Freud for their patron saint, whereas the symbolists resorted to the cabala and the mystical gobbledygook of the Rosicrucians, both wanted to make painting abandon what Magritte called "that dreary part people would have the real world play." Both were fascinated by dream and ambiguity, the duality of sex and death, perversity and contradiction and mystery. This show makes one realize that surrealism was no revolution but a final knotting-up of the 19th century...
...seen since before the First World War. It is the first since 1910 to redistribute wealth "upwards" rather than "downwards." It is the first government this century to launch a determined and vicious attack against organized labor, and it is the first government since the Second World War to abandon completely the unwritten law of consensus in British politics...
...victory of mother, church and romantic love. In the final scene, when Steve rejects the life of sin and sweeps up Mae (Loretta Greene) in his arms, her feet leave the floor and you almost expect her, slowly and sensuously, to kick off high-heeled shoes in Hollywood abandon to the last Cuddle...
Banker Bruce Fine, Businessman Alva T. Bonda, Lawyer Richard Miller and Mogul Corp. President C. Carlisle Tippit seem to abandon all fiscal caution when it comes to Cleveland's basketball, baseball and hockey clubs. In the past five years each man has invested from $200,000 to $1 million in one or more of the teams. And they are not alone. "Anybody who invests in sports for profit is out of his head," says Bonda. He should know, having once lost $400,000 in a now defunct soccer team. "The only reason to do it," he says...