Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to see their contrasts of image -- an Indian paintbrush or a wild daisy put against the bleached bone of a ram's skull, and that bone repeating the ancient permanence of mountain line -- without grasping that some transaction beyond the simply formal or factual is afoot. This is particularly true with her flower paintings: magnified closeups, filling the whole surface, of a black iris, a jack-in-the-pulpit, or a calla lily. Almost from the moment that they were first exhibited at Stieglitz's gallery in the mid-'20s, these were interpreted as sexually coded images, and since...
...movement is afoot to turn the wood now lying in about 25 pieces on the ground into an inscribed bench recalling former College President John T. Kirkland...
...that its information comes from the horse's mouth and that this particular horse is not just any old dray horse. Such anonymous sourcing is irritating to the reader, and a burden on the press's credibility, but remains a useful device to convey what really seems to be afoot...
...York Times John Kifner fell into the same trap in a lengthy article on "Iran: Obsessed With Martyrdom" that appeared last December. "Clearly something different is afoot here," he noted with the accuity of a seasoned observer of the Middle East. "Different" means they are not like us. "Different" justifies all sorts of cultural and journalistic imperialism, to state the point strongly...
...movements afoot in Washington to restrict publication and dissemination of scientific research findings are matters of deep concern among members of the academic community. Similar concerns also arise over government restrictions on the activities of foreign scholars...