Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This spring the lightweights have been posting impressive times over short distances. If they can sustain these times over longer distances, the outlook is bright for the season. Weber is pleased. "According to the clock we're looking good, but that remains to be proved in races," he says...
...main components of such game shows as Let's Make a Deal, where husbands and wives bicker as they try to guess the prices of lawn sprinklers and diet bread, and Supermarket Sweep, where grocery shelves are swept clean by tense men with shopping carts racing against a clock. Envy, too, is an important ingredient of the game-show recipe. The housewife who abandons diaper and vacuum cleaner to watch Jeopardy or You Don't Say! sits red-and green-eyed as other women-coifed and dressed in their finest at midday-win money and refrigerators and play...
Embalmed Nostalgia. Kienholz's strategy is to preserve the past in his works, coating his junk assemblages in a rock-hard veneer of fiber glass. He handles decay as a time clock between the ever fresh present and the fullness of a lifetime, meticulously reconstructing the scene, down to an original 1943 calendar pinned on the wall of Roxy's. The mustiness that he seeks to enshrine, however, is not embalmed nostalgia. "I think of my art as laying a trail for people," he explains. "They can follow it, and at a certain point I disappear. Then they...
...full crisis. More than 60,000 men were idled, the largest single industry in Latin America's greatest industrial city was paralyzed, and the lives of most adult Paulistas were in some way affected. Government officials, police, labor leaders and representatives of the industry met round the clock in secret emergency conference. Last week the crisis was quietly resolved. In return for unspecified concessions, the police agreed to end their crackdown on jogo do bicho-the animal game-the largest permanent floating numbers game in the world...
...brick tower, with its four clock faces and gold paint, described by Ives as "Jewish rococo," crumbled in a fire...