Word: baldingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visualized myself as a world-famous author of 70 with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald." This balding, world-famous author. Vladimir Nabokov, celebrated his 72nd birthday in Switzerland last week by working on a new novel that may be called Transparent Things. The new work, he explained to the New York Times, is being composed on his usual "scrambled index cards, which I gradually fill in and sort out, using up in the process more pencil sharpeners than pencils." Nabokov described his success at beating the biblical quota of 70 years as "a feat...
...Monopoly boards on which players can practice CIA takeovers and World Bank manipulations. In their way, they are as dour and simplistic as any Weatherman communiqué, and they lack the verve and pullulating fantasy of earlier Fahlstroms. They are participatory posters, meant as ironic distress signals. Granted their bald look, it can still be said that no painter has approached the radical dissatisfactions of the times with a blacker or edgier...
...teased blonde Afro wig. He didn't even wince when she accidentally let loose a - and a - over the Chianti, and a Holy -! and a - during the spaghetti. In fact, I could only see the faintest spark behind his Coca-Cola green glasses when she patted his shiny bald dome. I knew, though, that somewhere behind those shades Luke was figuring exactly how many kilowatts it would take to straighten out that Afro and melt those buttons. "She is a nice girl," he hissed to me. "But she is a Wasp...
Even so, all the networks will be covering some bald spots with free public-service ads. Among these, ironically, will be the American Cancer Society's anti-smoking commercials, which many stations plan to continue on a limited scale. Tobaccomen will spend more of their ad dollars in the print media, but in return, some companies want special treatment. American Brands is reportedly pressing to have its newspaper ads placed near the well-read TV listings...
Guidance along these lines is more likely to aid in the appreciation of the visual world than are histories of artists predicated on bald verbal exposition. How can you preserve a visual tradition for the blind? The critical perception must be balanced by the imaginative perception...