Word: finer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other recent showing. Meanwhile, almost anyone can get a feel for the new-old look in accessories. "Jettison your wide belts and get thin ones," advises Robert Fountain, vice president of Lord & Taylor. "Buy high-heeled sandals. The chunky look has gone in earrings, shoes, handbags. Everything is finer, fresher, softer...
...leaves very little to the suggestiveness of poetry. Its titles speak for the poetry's overbearing directness: "Forty-Three Year Old Woman, Masturbating," "The Corpse Hauler's Elegy," "The Cripple," "The Suicide," "Child Beater," "Starvation." Ai's purpose seems to be to attack the reader, lash out at the finer sensibilities. Her poems are description of desperate people or small narratives laced with hate and anger. There isn't even any self-pity in her characters--in "The Rivals," an old woman screams out at her cold husband...
...Swede Nelson Award has gone to some fine people over the years," Restic said, "but I don't think they've ever given it to a finer person than Jimmy Stoeckel...
When you've finished with these (or, if you will, and I hope you won't, the Bullwinkle cartoons, Dr. Zhivago or Take the Money and Run--when Sleeper in Boston is so much finer), you can take in Gimme Shelter, midnight at the Orson Welles: the greatest rock movie ever made, by far. It's worth trying to understand Altamont--an incredibly powerful nightmare vision in this film--and the Stones perform throughout as only they...
Composed in the hectic minutes preceding a Newsbreak broadcast, Osgood's verse veers erratically between Ogden Nash and Edgar Guest ("Nothing could be finer/ Than a crisis that is minor/ In the morning" reads one typical effort). "If you're writing a four-minute poem," Osgood explains, "and you have about a half-hour in which to do it, you accept whatever the muse lays...