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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Enable the Social Security Administration to borrow from the Treasury's ordinary tax revenues. This would be permitted only if the system's trust funds for Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance fell below 25% of their annual outgo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Social Security: Up, Up and Away! | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...Golden Age of Animation. At Off the Wall, nightly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

Someone once said that avant-garde movements inevitable lose their momentum, citing Impressionism and the hippie movement as classic examples of his theory. Yet the art of Malet is fortunate: Created in an age so befuddled by every kind of "-ism" from Fauvism to Cubism to Dadaism, and with new fashions developing in geometric progression, it is graced by a label which, while evoking instant recognition (everyone's aunt gushes over "the lovely Impressionist paintings"), does not really set any limits on an artist's self-expression. Impressions pure and simple. Few painters escape the biggest pitfall along this path...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: After First Impressions... | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

...Evian" was painted in 1900, and its view of the waterfront could only have been from an elegant carriage on the sloping road above. The work shows an afternoon hazyhot, captured forever beneath a coat of varnish, fresh sea air sealed in with this sketch of an age one imagines in likewise indefinite terms. Binet was very fond of flowers and there are several rather innocuous but decorative paintings of poppies, roses or a flowering tree over a stream. And yet one begins to wonder about this artist while looking at "Saint Mandrier," a view of boats moored...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: After First Impressions... | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

...nervous energy of expectation instead of the self-satisfied exhaustion they should be feeling after the successful ordeal they shared. But ironically even this weakness ends up working in favor of the production. This Pygmalion links its audience to the lack of connection between the classes in this age. It is as though, instead of having tried to make real contact with the poor, the actors, like the middle class philanthropists they are parodying, simply leave the money...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: In Her Own Image | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

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