Word: actualizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actual firing at Ford by Moore?at 45 a garrulous, clearly unstable woman who almost literally cried out for someone to stop her from fulfilling her plan?that touched off a wave of national debate, examination and calls for action. These included...
...Ordinarily these contrasting moods would suggest that Senator Timilty had emerged victorious in this preliminary contest and would pose a threat to the incumbent mayor in the November 4 final election. But even Timilty's assertion that his returns represented "a victory for the people" could not hide the actual results: in what was essentially a two-candidate race, he lost by 11 per cent of the vote...
...includes his earliest comic-book panels from 1963, which first won him his notoriety. Lichtenstein went off on an entirely different tangent in his attempts to convey the wavy fluidity, "the absolute indeterminate essence" of the sun, sky and ocean. He uses a combination of schematic and symbolic lines, actual color photographs, and a shimmering plastic called Rowlux, that in any other context--the plastic body of a comb or a brush, a drug-store display, a hair-salon wall--would be called vulgar. But here it is uncanny in its hypnotic approximation of nature...
Some examples of thoroughly commercial promotions: Rich Products Corp., maker of Coffee Rich, offers a "Bicentennial Kit" ("It includes an actual copy of the Declaration of Independence ...") in an ad headlined "Coffee Rich started a revolution in good taste." d-CON insecticide offers six free flag decals or, for $2, a Bicentennial T shirt. Its ad concludes: "So get a little American history free from d-CON, the people who are helping to free America from bugs." Nabisco offers grocers a cardboard kit that unfolds into a display stand-for Nabisco items-stamped "1776 Bicentennial 1976." The kit is called...
...bohemians before, but none had seemed so obstreperously life-enhancing as Augustus John. As Michael Holroyd observes in this superb biography, "In the public imagination he was to represent the Great Artist, the Great Lover, the Great Bohemian Enjoyer of Life. It was a cruelly ironic comment on his actual career, one which he did not accept himself but never effectively contradicted...