Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordered by phone) that a pile of concrete blocks by Carl Andre have not. Something called Liaison, by John Bennett, has some strange charm, looming like a cross between an oversized scuba diver and a mechanical caricature of an elephant (though it's hard to see in what corner of the living room it would fit). But there is no such justification for those Euclid stairs; even as a literary joke, they are not worth the floor space they occupy, and someone ought to have the energy to say so. George Segal's plaster figures, produced...
...poster spotting for the outside world is done by the nine Japanese reporters based in Peking. There are always more fresh posters each morning than all of them together can track down in a single day, and Peking's frigid winter is not conducive to street-corner translating. Result: some of the Japanese now photograph promising posters with their Polaroid cameras, then return to the warmth of their offices to translate them. Curious to see the mysterious poster warriors at work, one Japanese correspondent prowled Peking with a flashlight night after night. Although he was very diligent and although...
...members of the Churches of Christ, who live mostly in the South and Southwest, have embarked on a new kind of aggressive evangelism. In order to carry the Gospel to one corner of the U.S. where they have few adherents, the churches are sending entire communities of believers to the urban Northeast instead of relying on individual missionaries to do the task...
With 28 seconds remaining, Smith sent a bouncing 30-foot shot past Thornton and Harvard hopes flickered. The Crimson mounted a last drive, and a pass from Otness gave Smith a shot at the goal's upper left corner. It went wide, and the buzzer sounded a 5-4 defeat...
Organized crime could not, for example, possibly corner the market on cigarette sales to minors. Every 21 year old is a potential source of supply. No organization, legal or illegal, could keep a multitude of 21 year olds from buying cigarettes and passing them along to persons under 21. No black-market price differential great enough to make organized sale to minors profitable could survive the competition. And no organization, legal or illegal, could so intimidate every adult that he would not be a source of supply to the youngsters. Without any way to enforce the law, organized crime would...