Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week the committee's lineup on the extension bill seesawed back and forth. The vote is scheduled for this week, and whatever the outcome, the measure will probably win or lose by only one or two votes...
...sofas draped in black. In private she pops mints into her mouth from a pillbox. In her first meeting with Viola--Cesario she raises a smile by ticking off her virtues--lips, eyes, neck, chin--and then tucking her locket mirror into her bosom on the words "and so forth." She leaves no doubt that she is smitten by the young page since she whips the black drapes off her sofas when she exits. Later on, she goes much too far, when confessing her love, by chasing the page around the room like a dog in heat--no countess would...
...yearn, crave, ache for the days of rock as a religion, with its electricity and excitement. A new religion might grant those of us with '60s mores and ideals living in the disenchanting '70s at least a brief reprieve from the raisin-less oatmeal that spews forth from supposedly FM rock radio stations without having to live in the past...
...everyone charmed by all those quaint es in "olde" and "shoppe" that adorn so many signs in America's historic "townes"? Evidently there is a citizen of Alexandria, Va., who isn't. The anonymous zealot set forth one night with a brush and a can of brown paint and x-ed out the superfluous es in the Olde Towne Flower Shoppe sign. Elaine's of Olde Town, the Kitchen Shoppe, and the Olde Towne Tennis Shop also soon fell prey. This cultural resistance movement is causing, well, some local unease. "We don't know...
...there in quantity. Usually these pieces were mock-scientific-prolix classifications of fruit stains or upside-down plants at the Dutch pavilion, or, at the French, Roy Adzak's archaeological pastiche of fruit and vegetables embedded in plaster. In the Finnish pavilion, a sculptor named Olavi Lanu set forth a whole environment called Life in the Finnish Forest-blurred human figures made of earth, live moss, birch bark and other organic material. Granted that these quaint vegetative trolls would have looked better if met by accident in the woods, rather than spotlit in a gallery, they were still banal...