Word: flea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This reality, Sontag urges, is rendered surrealist by the camera. Surrealist not in the banal sense of resembling a landscape with melting watches, but in its representations- by definition disconnected, scattered and disturbing. The landscape of photographic images is to the modern eye what the flea market was to the sur realists 50 years ago - an endless, random repository, a disorderly world parallel to the real one, stuffed with the pathos of nostalgia and secret messages about social organization. Photography, in this sense, is rather like Borges' "Aleph": it contains every possibility and no resolutions, but everything...
...Missing Pets" is not infallible. He is hampered by police indifference, even when he can identify a petnaper. (On occasion, Keane says, he has come close to having his head blown off by professional criminals.) And, he notes "finding a lost bird in Oakland is like finding one particular flea on a Saint Bernard." Nonetheless, his ten-month-old business is prospering, and he has been approached to lend his nom de chien to a movie about Sherlock Bones. He is also working on a book that will not be called Sam Spayed...
...Eastern Europeans are beginning to understand they must improve the quality of their goods if they hope to sell enough abroad to pay for more of their imports. Says Karoly Ravasz, a Hungarian official: "Instead of ordinary lathes, we must produce precision machinery. Instead of textiles that sell in flea markets, we want to sell fashionable clothes." Only in that way can the Communists avoid going much deeper into hock to the West...
...recent years the ranks of decoration wearers in France have been swollen by purchasers of secondhand medals in flea markets. The lowest-ranking medal of the Legion of Honor, the "Chevalier," can be bought for $50 at the French government mint. There are, of course, penalties (up to two years in prison) for wearing unauthorized decorations, but these are seldom if ever enforced. One reason may be that having a medal does not involve much in the way of an earthly reward; the holder of the lowest grade of the Legion of Honor, for example, gets the princely stipend...
Saturday, November 15--Bateman puts on an offensive display for Brown, including a triple flea-flicker culminating in a touchdown. Waving at the fans, Bateman trots to the locker room and a discouraged Harvard team follows, behind at the half...