Word: dustier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like catapulting through time. The production is exquisitely mounted, the acting impeccable. Joan Plowright makes Masha a woman of neurotically vulnerable ardor, and as her lover Vershinin, Robert Stephens is a colonel of spineless charm. And yet by comparison, the new experiments in theater make the play seem greyer, dustier, more sibylline than it used to be-as if the sisters' failure to get to Moscow were paralleled by the play's inability to reach the contemporary sensibility...
...booming economy has brought students better jobs, and dustier rooms. As a result of tightening supplies of skilled labor, students who used to vacuum rooms can now find more attractive, higher paying work elsewhere...
Time-Tested Modern. For 24 years the Museum of Modern Art refused to label its works as a permanent collection, and always planned to switch time-tested art to dustier museums. It bought paintings on the calculation that one out of a dozen might have permanent value. "Today's masterpiece is sometimes tomorrow's bore," wrote the first director, now director of museum collections, Alfred H. Barr Jr., in 1942. Even today, the official permanent collection numbers fewer than 20 works...