Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ingrid (Hanna Schygulla), is asked by the hijackers to select Jewish-sounding names from the collection of passenger's passports. She refuses, saying, "Don't you know I'm German...I won't do it again!" The director goes on to demonstrate that he is aiming at the lowest common denominator of human intelligence when he shows us a close-up of a Jewish passenger's tatooed forearm--a grim reminder of his days in the concentration camp--as he sheepishly hands his passport over to the unwilling Ingrid...
From the mouths of activists on both ends of the political spectrum, the most common word used to describe the average Dartmouth student is "apathetic...
This week's trivia question comes from Harvard Sports Information Director Ed Markey, who asks, "What do the members of the Harvard basketball team and our soldiers in Viet Nam have in common?" Answer below...
...intensity of Willem de Kooning, nor the reflective pictorial intelligence that distinguishes the best work of Mark Rothko or Robert Motherwell. But he was still, when on form, a first-rate painter, well worth scholarly attention. So why have we seen so little of him? Because, it seems, the common curatorial view is that Kline was a backup man, not an innovator. This has chilled the interest of museums, if not the market. So, until a fuller retrospective comes along--this one consists of some 100 works and leaves out many of the significant ones--we can be grateful...
...African President said he would negotiate the establishment of a "national statutory council" made up of government officials, representatives of the black homelands, and leaders of "other black . . . interest groups." Though the council would have no power of its own and would merely advise the government on "matters of common concern, including proposed legislation," it sounded much like the "national convention," or indaba (powwow), that the South African government has always insisted would never be created...