Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between 1900 and 1950, was distinctly timid about appreciating the work of American artists, and to modernist ones it could be quite hostile. What worked in favor of the art, in the end, was the insatiable appetite for the new that had been built into European America's social contract ever since the Puritans came to Massachusetts to create the New Jerusalem. To Americans between 1900 and 1950, however, the idea of an American Century in the arts--other than popular mass culture--would have made little sense...
...have two thoughts on that. One: yeah. And the other one is that this is the last year of our contract, and it's a chance for us to finally make some money: $60,000 to $70,000 an episode...
...Dylan plugged in his guitar, turned on to an electric sound and tuned out the chiding and disgust of fans who felt he had abandoned folk music. With "Maggie's Farm" Dylan broke with what many considered an unwritten contract forged among artists including Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie and other poets who put politically conscious poetry to music. At Newport he shouted back at hecklers who called him Judas; Dylan later proclaimed that he no longer considered himself an anti-war, singularly motivated musician and sought instead to represent only himself and his music...
...museum guards are included in the security guards union, which is still locked in negotiations for a new contract with the University...
Erickson also said the issue of a security guard contract was important for community safety, citing the recent Take Back The Night march as an example that campus safety is still a problem...