Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magazines, old catalogs. Their factual neutrality made their paradoxes weirder. Sometimes this serves mainly lyrical ends, as in the Klee-like plant-personages that rear up on the tiny horizon of Always the Best Man Wins, 1920. And sometimes it discloses an erotic fury, a Dionysiac madness bursting the collar studs and corsets of life, as in the collage-narrative The Dream of a Little Girl Who Wanted to Become a Nun, 1929-30. In a secular age with its "therapeutic" religions, we find it hard to imagine the power of blasphemy to the Surrealists. All the same, Ernst came...
...MASTER," "MISTRESS" or "SLAVE," there's a studded dog collar out there with your name...
...pinching pennies up in the executive suite. As corporations begin to release their proxy statements and annual reports for 1990, many stockholders are getting steamed up reading about the fat raises and other payments their chief executives raked in. Already making 160 times what average blue-collar employees receive, chiefs of America's largest companies garnered pay hikes last year of 12% to 15% as the economy nose-dived. Some CEO pay packages are so large, says Stephen O'Byrne, a compensation expert at the consulting firm Towers Perrin, that they "represent investment decisions on the order of building...
...temptation to administer street-corner sentences is sometimes reinforced by the frustration of knowing that many of those the police collar will get off on plea bargains or serve mockingly short sentences...
Barbara Mikulski, Maryland. This abrasive first-termer hasn't impressed the folks back home. Mikulski will have trouble winning back the support of conservative blue-collar voters who don't understand why she didn't support punching out Saddam Hussein...