Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year veteran, Cushman at 56 has the physical presence of a Leatherneck on a recruiting poster-barrel-chested, hair closely cropped, posture ramrod-straight. His distinguished fighting record reaches from Pearl Harbor to Viet Nam. In a time of cerebral officers, he views the world through the eyes of a rough Marine combat officer...
Died. Carl Ruggles, 95, pioneering American composer; of heart disease; in Bennington, Vt. A salty, cracker-barrel philosopher who attributed his longevity to dirty jokes ("If it hadn't been for all those laughs, I'd have been dead years ago"), Ruggles wrote out atonal works with crayon on brown wrapping paper. Though he was a notoriously slow worker and a painstaking perfectionist-only eight pieces that require a total of 90 minutes to perform survive him-his sober tone poem Sun Treader is considered a modern masterwork...
...drums, left by builders of DEW-line radar sites in the 1950s, disfigure the shores of the Beaufort Sea, within the boundaries of the nation's largest wildlife refuge. Some have been only partially emptied by the departing military and are leaking oil, which is toxic to wildlife. Barrel pollution is also responsible for a strange phenomenon: what is known as an "oil-drum culture" among Eskimos living on Point Barrow. Discarded oil barrels are used for garbage containers and toilets; once filled, the malodorous barrels are dumped onto the ice to be carried out to sea when...
...postwar Europe, this material seemed to come from a transatlantic dreamworld. "For the French intellectual," Paolozzi observed, "a Coca-Cola bottle was a phenomenon. In America it is merely a way of life." One of his collages, from 1948, contains the word POP issuing from the barrel of a gun: a prediction that amuses Paolozzi today. "People sometimes say that I missed the boat, that I should have made a career out of Pop art. But I was never keen on it. I felt there should be more to it than simple artifacts, consumer goods; and I'm still...
...sophisticated English weaponry now available in the U.S. through firms like McLeod's Darts Unlimited and Sam Hill English Darts in San Francisco. The darts themselves come in an enormous variety of sizes and shapes, from simple wooden affairs to the Ambassador model, which boasts a gold-plated barrel and genuine feathers called flights. Aficionados would not be caught dead without their own favorite brand of dart. The standard board, favored by USDA and a fixture in most English pubs, is made of tightly packed sisal fiber and marked off in 20 pieshaped sections with a score value...