Word: customs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some artists don't seem to belong in the show at all, or only do so by force of custom. It's a toss-up whether you want to see George Segal's once white, now gray, plaster-cast figures in relation to mass culture; today they seem even more attached to solitude and individual grittiness than they did in the '60s, sculptural materializations of the urban mood of Hopper. You could make some kind of case for that excellent California painter Wayne Thiebaud as a Pop artist because he painted hot dogs and angel-food cakes; but artists have...
Poison. Anthrax. Alice in Chains. Skid Row. The band names alone conjure images of mayhem, torture and death. Heavy-metal rock, with its raw lyrics, pummeling beats, banshee vocals and buzz-saw guitars, seems custom-made for leather-clad lowlifes with tattooed biceps and lobotomized brains. Teenagers love it. Always have. But during the early 1980s, when the insipid glam-rock of Duran Duran ruled the charts, heavy metal was the idiot in the basement, shunned by music-industry executives and dismissed by critics as adolescent noise...
...What we have in common as Americans is a political and social tradition that has created a unique degree of freedom in action and conscience; a society more open to newcomers than any so far known. American law and custom have blended diverse groups more successfully than any other community. Further, we have in common a system that -- for all its serious flaws and < injustices -- has shown an unprecedented ability to correct itself. Certainly we must become more aware of other cultures and their contributions. But the top priority should be to equip children for life in the modern world...
...used a standard reactor since the mid-1970s, enabling any nuclear engineer or plant operator to work on 52 of the country's 55 plants at a moment's notice. By contrast, each of the 112 U.S. nuclear plants, which produce 21% of the nation's electricity, was custom built at its site. So when something goes wrong, a specialist has to fix it, causing delays that tend to make U.S. plant shutdowns longer than in France...
...left at Harvard Law is unmistakably deflated. In his fall 1989 address to the incoming class, Dean Clark broke with the rigid custom that requires law school deans to urge their students to go to work for Ralph Nader after graduation, and said instead, "No part of the profession has a monopoly on 'doing good.' Helping people to solve their problems--to cope with government agencies and neighbors and spouses--is essential work of lawyers. So is helping the wheels of commerce turn and helping business produce the goods and services needed by society. Do not let anyone convince...