Word: depiction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost secondary. One becomes obsessed in De Andrea's "Boys Playing Soccer" with how the sculptor was able to balance the figure so precariously on such a small base and, even worse, to make the wrinkles in the stomach so convincing. The question of why the artist chose to depict two naked boys playing soccer becomes completely irrelevant. It merely provides a convenient subject for a flashy display of what in the end is just craftmanship...
...budget passed. Because the West German constitution made no provision for such a situation, the only way the Chancellor could bring about an election was to call for a vote of confidence-and deliberately arrange to lose it. Barzel did not fail to use the opportunity to depict Brandt as a loser whose policies had been repudiated...
...that the Republicans strove so vigorously for a national convention of but one mind and with no discord. This country did not develop from such a put-on. There has never been an American season without winds of countless directions. So just what country did the Republican Convention depict...
...Bold Ones will be getting bolder, mainly by knifing into such delicate surgical issues as embryo transplants and lobotomy. The lobotomy episode will also depict that rarity on TV medical shows: a crooked doctor. No new adventure hero, it seems, will be admitted to the schedule without an ethnic identity badge. ABC'S Kung Fu is a sort of Fugitive foo yung-a Chinese priest permanently on the lam in the American West of the 1870s, nonviolent but ready to zap troublemakers with the self-defense art of kung fu. The title character of NBC's Banacek...
...sung by Joe Glazer and the Fianchettoed Bishops: "He was born in nineteen forty-three/ And right away I knew he'd make history/ 'Cause he opened his mouth on the day he was born/ And instead of crying he said, 'Move that pawn.' " The song goes on to depict Spassky as already defeated and hustled off to Siberia...