Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sounds ridiculous, but all day people have been trying to touch the damn thing. There is something going on here. A lot of people are here and a lot are embarrassed. Some are curious, and some of us are disdainfully amused and aloof. That pose doesn't last long, though. A couple drove up in their pickup truck from Tennessee, six hours away. It's not surprising. It's a Friday night, and there probably isn't a whole hell of a lot going on in Knoxville for the weekend. The couple is in their forties...
...some years ago, partook of "the astonishment of Moliere's character on learning that he has been speaking prose" all his life. Suddenly, there was the commercial vernacular of America, that amniotic fluid in which every collector had been nurtured, right there on the museum wall. And the curious paradox was that, in Lichtenstein's case, the fluid -those cartoon images of teen-agers and Korean War jets-was transparent. After a while the imagery hardly got in the way at all, and Lichtenstein could be treated as a formalist much more readily than, say, Claes Oldenburg, with...
...array of requests from the Associated Harvard Alumni (AHA), combined with the preparations of a Commencement Planning Task Force of Buildings and Grounds (B&G) and Harvard police reveal the extent to which Commencement has become a curious combination of slick, big-business organization and small-scale purchasing...
...Union when our national interests are at stake." It's not an easy philosophy to classify; as one Harvard foreign policy specialist said recently, "Campaign-for-nuclear-disarmament types will agree with half of what he says and Reaganauts will agree with the other half." But it reflects the curious combination of roles Watson has taken on during his career: on the one hand, an ardent proponent of nuclear disarmament and on the other, a man Fortune Magazine called "the most successful capitalist who ever lived...
Speaking at a seminar at the Center for International Affairs, the 72-year-old religious leader said that exploitation by the superpowers and multinational corporations includes a "convenient" alliance with the rich who live in developing countries. "It's a very curious manner of help--our cultures are being crushed," he added...