Word: dodo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...digital watch tells you the time. It does not represent it. The digital watch may be going the way of the dodo because all that fact makes for too much bulk and too little lift...
...sweeping reform, raised his arms in triumph. Joining hands in the committee room celebration was an unlikely combination of allies: Russell Long, the shrewd Louisiana Democrat who for 37 years in the Senate has played the fine print of the tax code like a fiddler at a fais-dodo; Majority Leader Robert Dole, who once argued that tax reform was a lower priority than deficit reduction but who now promises to push through the measure on the Senate floor next month; and Bill Bradley, the New Jersey Democrat who for five years has been building the case for reform. Lobbyists...
...Schwitters, Max Beckmann), of ruined hope, lopped lives and rampant state philistinism. By 1945 there is no life left in the expressionist impulse, at least in Germany; it can only be reborn in America as abstraction, and then re-exported to exhausted Europe. By 1955 figurative expressionism is a dodo--shot by Hitler, eaten by art history, its bones a museum specimen. Thus spake, until lately, the scenario...
...golden tongue was by turns defiant and disarming, depicting himself as a loyal friend ("Man, I spent my life helping people, friends and enemies") and an absent-minded administrator ("I'm not a detail person"). Playing to the jury with the verve of a fiddler at a fais- dodo, the son of a Cajun sharecropper provoked chuckles from his courtroom claque, exasperation from the judge and testy objections from the federal prosecutor. Whether or not the jury finds his protestations persuasive when they begin deliberating later this week, Edwards' performance made fine theater in a state where politics is prized...
Should man follow the dodo and the passenger pigeon into extinction, who will inherit the earth? Faced with that gloomy question, most futurists and even some zoologists tend toward the whimsical: late-late-show killer ants, say, or playful monsters that put one in mind of Lewis Carroll's frumious Bandersnatch...