Word: archaically
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...outline the changes both in the American view of France and in the institution known as the newsmagazine." Stanley Hoffmann, professor of French civilization at Harvard, who supplied the accompanying first commentary, noted, "While the French have long thought that Americans had an image of France that was simultaneously archaic, sentimental and condescending, this is not the image that emerges from TIME's covers." Hoffmann counted 73 covers on political and military figures, dominated, of course, by Charles de Gaulle, who appeared on 14 covers and was TIME's Man of the Year for 1958. Concurring with Hoffmann...
...Japan. The characteristic montage of Rauschenbergian imagery-a sumo wrestler holding a tiny alligator, schools of fish, a dump truck, and other elliptical images of ancient and modern Japan, mostly derived from photographs-is fired into the glaze. The result, a hybrid of traditional and new technologies, looks both archaic and slick...
...archaic and restrictive on the economic activity of the commonwealth," Rep. Martin Reilly (D-Springfield) said of Sunday closings. He said the change will bring 15,000 jobs and $44 million in tax revenue...
...country famed for its advanced technology, the vote-counting ceremony in Tokyo last week had a strangely archaic flavor. White-jacketed party workers carried cardboard boxes full of ballots across the floor of the city's cavernous harbor-front International Trade Fair exhibition hall. They tallied 974,150 mail-in votes by hand, then stuffed the ballots into green plastic baskets for a final scrutiny by election referees. Finally came the announcement that 58% of the members of the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party (L.D.P.) had picked Yasuhiro Nakasone, 64, to succeed Zenko Suzuki, 71, as their president. When...
Some may find such imagery not merely archaic but positively oldfashioned: invocations of the chthonic and the primitive have been standard modernist fare for three-quarters of a century. But Bourgeois uses her primitive quotations to get past the conventional groupings of modern art history-the litter of isms that tells us so little about the real meanings of art-and to rummage painfully between the layers of her own makeup. What equivalents can art find for depicting femaleness from within, as distinct from the familiar conventions of looking at it from outside through the eyes of another sex? What...