Word: foe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writer, Macdonald has the soul of a middle linebacker. Crunch! goes the hit, opinion foremost like an elbow to the head. But the art of Macdonald lies in the way he wraps up a victim after he has wobbled him. (1), (2), (3), (a), (b), (c)-he smothers his foe with Q.E.D. exercises in logic and item upon item of proof. As he closes in for the kill, Macdonald may mimic the cries of the wounded. He offers spot-on parodies of Norman Mailer, Wolfe and circa 1938 TIME-"celebrated last month by potent Newsmagazine TIME, its fifteenth birthday...
...museum windows and pasted up. What Buren's work really seems to be about is words: vacuous configurations gift-wrapped in fighting language, revealing the curiously transparent game of certification by which art posturers now proclaim their avant-gardeness. These days, the only way to become an accredited foe of museum culture is to be in a museum show-which means, in turn, that the Museum of Modern Art is obliged to embrace entropy in order to seem "modern" at all. ∎Robert Hughes
Yale is now 0-1-1 along with Princeton, which did not face an Ivy foe last weekend. Penn, which also took on non-league competition, now stands winless in two tries against Brown and Cornell. The Quakers had ranked as pre-season threats to give Brown a battle...
...Transportation, the feeling is that even if the CAB authorizes a subsidy, Congress will not fund it because it is tired of being asked to bail out private companies in the manner of Perm Central, Lockheed and Grumman. Wisconsin's influential Democratic Senator William Proxmire, a longtime foe of subsidies to business, is adamant against any aid to Pan Am beyond possible increases in fares. He bristles at the thought of turning Pan Am into "the nation's largest welfare recipient...
...average fan, and most of you will be spectators for the majority of your time here, there is a strange attraction to the decrepit facilities that host Harvard's battles with the dreaded foe...