Word: drains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bronzes are not about anguish or loss, loneliness or the post-Hiroshima terrors. They are emotionally quite ineloquent. This may be one reason for their survival into a time when most of the angst-pushing European sculpture of the 1940s and '50s has vanished down the historical drain. In his obsession with the difficulty of seeing, Giacometti wished to get beyond style. He partially succeeded because - paradoxical as it may seem - he was culturally saturated, an artist of enormous erudition who boasted without much exaggeration of having visited the Louvre 50,000 times. (By the same token, Giacometti...
...himself marked by his celebrated childhood stint in a blacking factory, put his observations of Manchester misery into Hard Times. Alexis de Tocqueville took a look and with a philosophical shrug scooped Norman O. Brown with what may be the first excremental view of modern capitalism. "From this foul drain," he said, "the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world...
...That last round was so very painful to watch and see bout after bout go down the drain," captain Eugene White said after the match. "We started out so well that we really should have...
...paign contributions and other misdeeds, is having similar problems. Last week the jury's foreman, Julian G. Murphy, 54, an independent insurance broker, said that he was quitting because his in come had "dropped at least $1,500 a month, and my business was going down the drain...
...reserves when sappers last month blew up the Nha Be petroleum depot near Saigon, destroying about 50% of the civilian stores. Attacks on the military's reserves of 2 million bbl. might well be part of a major Communist drive. Even if the military reserves remained intact, the drain would be great. If the war steps up again, the South Vietnamese will open the throttle, the Singapore refineries will be urged to open the taps, and the U.S. may well have to open up still more on its military aid flow...