Word: dig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...architecture in Boston, has mummies and much more buried in its cavernous complexity. Unless you're like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who would never go into the British Museum because she was afraid the mummies would rise from the dead and get her, the MFA is a good place to dig for exhibits. These days, the best finds are Anamorphoses (through November 29, more on that next week) and Printmaking in Germany...
...number of universities and various departments are "super-sensitive" about having authors require their captive students to dig into their pockets to pay for instructor's texts, a representative at Houghton Mifflin, who asked to remain anonymous, claims, even though the royalties reaped from any single class amount to "little more than cents." All public educational institutions in the state...
...writing off the South. We're saying 'right on' in the South." To a group of supporters in South Carolina, he declared: "Carter may be your geographic neighbor, but we want to be your philosophic neighbor." Inevitably, Dole got in a sharp dig at what he calls Carter's "equivocation." A common line: "He has taken so many stands on 14B [the right-to-work law], the next time they ask him, he'll probably say it's his shoe size...
...farming community of Chowchilla had disappeared. The youngsters and their driver had been kidnaped by three masked men brandishing pistols. The victims were driven to a gravel quarry 100 miles away and forced into an abandoned trailer truck buried 6 ft. underground. Sixteen hours later the captives managed to dig themselves out and were soon rescued. The FBI quickly interrogated them but found no answer to the question: Who were the abductors...
...most imposing symbol was the Eiffel Tower, erected when Robert Delaunay was four years old: now a venerable cliche of tourism, but to Parisians then the tallest structure on earth and a cathedral of modernity. "The Eiffel Tower is my fruit-dish," Delaunay liked to say, in a dig at cubist still life. From 1909 onward, he painted it at least 30 times: close up or on the skyline, seen from above or below, aggressively sharp or half-dissolved in mists of color, broken, dislocated, twisting upward, a veritable Tower of Babel. No painter had dealt with this emblem...