Word: gamier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MERCIER AND GAMIER...
Engaged in the great American game of trying to have it both ways, Playboy and Penthouse try to distance themselves from their gamier rivals. Both run serious critical departments on films, books and records. Playboy carries fiction, though not often the best work, by top writers, who are paid top prices because their presence, in the jargon of Hollywood, "authenticates" the magazine...
...Ideally, one was carried forward by the logic of the plan as, at a play, one was swept along by the plot. The buildings were meant to unfold. This feeling for ritual movement, the promenade, would almost disappear from architecture in the 20th century; and yet it was functional. Gamier was one of the last to recognize that fantasy and ceremonial had valid roles in secular architecture. People did not just go to the opera to see performance; they went to enjoy a ritual called "going to the opera." In the Paris Opera, Gamier enshrined that ritual. "How large should...
MERCIER AND GAMIER by SAMUEL BECKETT 123 pages. Grove Press...
...ordinary citizens as well as for inmates in their cells and lions in their cages, it was a rough time to be in Baltimore. Ripening mounds of garbage, growing ever gamier in the hot summer sun, piled up next to the city's famed row houses. Temperatures in some jail cells rose as high as 110°, broiling the unsupervised inmates. Zoo officials started a rumor that they might have to slaughter small animals in order to feed larger ones. That persuaded union members to allow food to be brought in; but no manure was taken...