Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parody to satisfy a discriminating Harvard audience. He pointed out that the increasing use in recent years of the double entendre in Bank humor was no longer satisfying the audience. The use of a line from a song as the tag-line to a joke has often fallen flat because too few in the audience could identify the song...
HERZOG, by Saul Bellow. In this long-awaited novel, Bellow's hero is a man in search of a new life amid the rubble of a wrecked marriage. His conclusion is disappointingly flat ("I am what I am"), but in the process of reaching it, Herzog-Bellow ranges wittily, learnedly, and perceptively over nearly all the dilemmas-major, minor, and plain absurd-of 20th century man in a virtuoso display that is a constant delight...
...once again-as in the 100-meter dash, won by a German in 1960, this time back in U.S. hands when Florida A. & M.'s Bob Hayes ripped off a fantastic (but wind-aided) 9.9 sec. in the semifinal and tied the world record with a 10-sec.-flat clocking in the final. After one astonishing U.S. victory in track and field, a Japanese spectator turned to an American in the stands and said simply: "I congratulate you"-as if the entire U.S. were responsible...
...honored art of pure slapstick is so out of vogue that few people even remember that the word refers to an actual stick-"a device," says Webster, "made of two flat pieces of wood, sometimes used in farce by one actor striking another in such a way as from the loud noise to make it appear that the blow was a severe one." One might think that television would be a wilderness of slapstick, but actually there is remarkably little of it. Last week NBC tried to change this situation by introducing three new slapstick comedies in one 90-minute...
Manufacturers make synthetics in various thicknesses equivalent to those of watercolors, gouache and oils. Matte and gloss media are available to impart every kind of surface finish, from chalky pastels and flat tempera to buttery oil glazes. Plastics can be thickened to print graphics or molded into free-standing sculpture. Moreover, under laboratory tests equivalent to 45 years of direct sunlight, the new paints have proved virtually fadeproof. Indeed, like every other technical innovation in the history of painting, the synthetics may well lead artists to explore, experiment and discover new forms and techniques as enduring as the paints themselves...