Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previously sold mainly to women, broadened their appeal when tattooed he-men began to puff them in the pages of the nation's magazines. (This kept the women loyal, attracted the men. and sent Marlboro sales soaring 120% in a single year.) And the TV puppets that depict a girl chasing a boy who has just dabbed Brylcreem on his hair (two girls if he uses two dabs) helped to lift that hair tonic from fourth to first place in the market in less than three years...
...open car and cruising slowly up the avenue under a welter of paper, ribbon and idolization. And not the raucous cry of Texas Guinan's "Hello Sucker!" or the gallused might of Clarence Darrow at the Scopes trial, or the wild, flappering chorus lines of Broadway would ever depict the tumultuous '20s half so well as the one memorable moment when bareheaded Charles Lindbergh, an unbelievably young man who challenged the skies without a huge backing apparatus of machines and men. returned to his own land to be led to the people in triumph by top-hatted Grover...
Needless to say, the Times reviewer might have reacted differently if Feiffer had chosen to depict, instead of the popular misbeliefs that went into the acceptance of the Cuban Invasion, a rather small, bow-tied official who helped plan it. Schlesinger, incidentally, added insult to irony by concluding with a perceptive quote from Feiffer: "if suppression cannot disarm criticism, amiable acceptance can." Too bad prose doesn't blush...
...projects, he said, would be to write something that could be "read in several ways, like Henry James." Another would be to write about the Argentine revolution, avoiding the tendecy to depict it as "picturesque," a fault, he said, that many other writers have exhibited...
...images of disintegration have a double significance; they depict the destructive wheels of modern civilization, grinding man further and further into physical fear and spiritual slavery. But they represent simultaneously the destructive mind of the artist--the man who tears down illusions -- exposing the world to men's eyes that he might be born again. The two processes are not combined accidentally; it is only because civilization is decaying that man is brought face to face with his greatest challenge; only the experience of a chaotic world forces man away from his naive comforts, leaving him with the choice: bigger...