Word: floridity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...networks ended abruptly last week with a wintry blast from Indianapolis. Speaking before a local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, Clay T. Whitehead, director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy (OTP), attacked the networks-particularly network news-with a harshness reminiscent of Vice President Agnew's florid denunciations of three years ago. Whitehead derided what he called the "ideological plugola" of TV newsmen who sell their own political views, and tartly dismissed "socalled professionals who confuse sensation with sense and who dispense elitist gossip in the guise of news analysis...
...demand, drop her knickers onstage. Around 1912, the real-life Gaudier was commissioned to do a portrait bust of a Major Smythies, who - considering the time and place and the modernity of Gaudier's work - can hardly have been a fool. Russell turns him into a florid cross between Kaiser Bill and Colonel Blimp, querulously posing in a drawing room on a white horse. Do such absurdities matter? Not if Russell's aim was slapstick parody. Yet, to judge from his publicity, Russell believes that his erratic mediation between Vasari and Groucho Marx tells some truth about...
...pool and bridge. The iris leaves and stems are gold lacquer, the flowers mother-of-pearl inlay, the bridge columns are rendered in silver while the planks, which run diagonally across the lid and down the sides, are dull inlaid lead. What Renaissance casket would not look fussy and florid beside this container? But it was in painting that Korin's virtuosity showed; especially in his screen Red and White Plum Trees. It is to Japanese decoration what Matisse's Red Studio is to modern decorative...
Whither rock? If the salad days of Dylan, the Beatles and their near peers constituted its high renaissance, rock music has now evolved into a florid and self-conscious rococo period, which is also, sad to say, often decadent. Once the sound was what mattered most; rhapsodizing players would even turn their backs on the audience, and "performance" was almost a dirty word. Now the show is everything. A few rock groups share the evening with stand-up comedians or clowns and trapeze artists to liven up their act. Some musicians wear mime makeup and practice ersatz Marcel Marceau. Others...
Barzel hopes to enlarge C.D.U.'s traditional bloc of businessmen, white-collar workers, farmers, women and older voters by suggesting that West Germany, between radicalism and Ostpolitik, is edging much too close to socialism. Franz Josef Strauss, a florid speechmaker and political infighter, already warns darkly against what he calls Brandt's "social Communist regime...