Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aviation is growing so explosively that we are not even now properly prepared to predict its full measure," says FAA Administrator William ("Bozo") McKee. "This is no exercise in abstract thought. There is an immediacy to the need. The jumbos [Boeing's 490-passenger 747 jets] are coming in 1969, and the supersonic transports will follow. Not only the airways, but the airports must be ready...
...coincided with the steamroller uniformity of the industrial age. And even these prime decades went largely unnoticed and unappreciated until the 1920s. Their rediscovery was the work of American artists who recognized that in early American folk art there was a valid commentary on the American scene, full of abstract pattern and rhythms, startling color juxtapositions and forceful characterization...
...Author Arnold explains on the dust jacket that "the marrieds are like apples. Some shed their peel, that they may be closer. Others keep their peel but sacrifice their core on the altar of love. Some can live this way. Some-like Gus-are reduced to applesauce." In the abstract sense, right...
...answer: "No. Your mommy is dead. Understand that! . . . All the mommies are dead. I am a monster who makes all the mommies die; I am a mommy-murdering monster, do you hear?" To his mirrored image: "I am simply trying to discover who I am-in the abstract sense...
...Good morning!" says a raw egg, lolling in a shallow dish, its yolk bearing an advertisement for a no-pressure printing technique, proving that the ovum can become a commercial. Noses nudge knowingly from a page dealing with psephology. Five pages of pebbled and scaly abstract photography resolve themselves into a closeup of human toes to make the point: "The wheel is an extension of the foot." One entire spread is printed in Leonardo-like "mirror writing," and another is set upside down just to show how absurd the whole concept of books can be. Indeed, the authors of this...