Word: aptness
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...tape recorder was unveiled in 1900 at the Paris Exposition, to which visitors flocked to be scandalized by Rodin's non-Victorian statues, and Kodak introduced the Brownie camera, an apt symbol of a century in which technology would at first seem magical, then become simple, cheap and personal. The Scholastic Aptitude Test was born that year, permitting a power shift from an aristocracy to a meritocracy. The Wright brothers went to Kitty Hawk to try out their gliders. Lenin, 30, published his first newspaper calling for revolution in Russia. Churchill, 25, was elected to the House of Commons...
...paper, cut into silhouettes that wind around the oddly-shaped space of the lobby. Entering the lobby, one is confronted with the long, cumbersome title, printed in 19th century type on the gray concrete of the front wall. The title's reference to "enlightened audiences" could not be more apt in all its cynicism, class consciousness and cultural criticism than it is here, in the art center of Harvard University...
Members of the community who wish to expresstheir sympathy may send cards to the MinoreFamily, care of Dominic Minore, 2800 Quebec St.NW, Apt. 744, Washington...
Well, what can you do but cry when you've devoted yourself to a candidate like Primary Colors' Jack Stanton--charming, idealistic in some ways, but more than a little slippery? That's the kind of presidential timber we've been getting in the movies lately. Men apt to cut a few moral corners, and then a few more, until all the right angles are as smooth as they are. Men with the scruples of the off-screen President in Wag the Dog, who is caught in a scandal with an underage girl. Or of President Gene Hackman in Absolute...
...stand up for Black Grape in the name of aesthetics and the sublime. After all, the album's title came from the words Kermit once had to substitute on television for the line "talking bullshit...bullshit...bullshit" from Black Grape's first album: "talking stupid... stupid...stupid" seems apt. Children listening to Black Grape can count on getting some very wrong ideas, and all good people everywhere whose sympathy is not limited to liberal white drug-using men can count on being insulted by some part of the album or another. This certainly isn't a time in the music...