Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inferno are "conformisti piccolo-borghesi" (petit-bourgeois conformists), and their sins are "il conformismo," "la volgarita," "la moralita." Pasolini always had a fondness for the antithesis, for the oxymoron; but in his recent writings the language degenerates into phrases that are cliches before they are coined: "the masses have chosen as their religion the condition of not having one, without knowing," vulgarity is the full bloom of conformity," or "this banal originality." Pasolini owed his fame as a poet to the fact that he appeared on the Italian literary stage at a time when there were few other performers...
...Fogg just opened a Jacques Villon retrospective his week), which one could almost subtitle "The Adventures of Marcel Duchamp's Smarter Brother." Whatever their relative merits, Villon was one of the 20th century's greatest artists. He was not a revolutionary like his brother, but continued to refine his chosen visual style--Cubism--throughout a long career. His color sense and sophistication produced work that Issboth elegang and exciting. See the show for a study break, if nothing else. Boston City Hall, Government Center, Boston: An Arab celebration of costumes, artifacts, photographs, mosque designs, Islamic prints, plus an exhibition...
...Complex. One problem is sheer quantity. Only 15 states held primaries in 1952; there were 21 in 1972. This year there will be at least 30. All in all, about three-fourths of the convention delegates will be selected in primaries this year, whereas less than half were chosen that...
Some states, for example, have taken advantage of a loophole in the rules and have chosen to elect delegates in each congressional district or, in some cases, in even smaller areas. Any candidate winning a plurality of votes in a district will get all of the delegates from that locality. Each such election is in effect a mini-primary-and each candidate faces the delicate decision of whether or not to enter. A few states, including California, Michigan and Nevada, require a candidate to win only 10% or 5% of the vote, instead of 15%, in order to gain...
Ironically, Avildsen has intentionally chosen this bigger-than-life storyline to test the reality of the dream. What heavyweight champion could, like the film's smooth-talking Apollo Creed, choose his own challenger for a staged New Year's Day bicentennial fight? And who would believe that even the media-mad Creed would bill the fight as the symbol of American opportunity because it pits a certain-to-lose unknown white challenger against a virtually undefeatable black...