Word: glaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meant to be (in the jargon of the day) a culturally transparent, non-elitist, participatory, anti-hierarchical, modular omnisensorium, it had no walls to speak of: walls were for palaces and prisons. Instead it had temporary screens, on which its Matisses and Miros hung transfixed like rabbits in the glare of spotlights. Entropy set in the moment it opened...
...There is no one else out there for me." Both blared that they were not doing it for the money. Still, the green spoke pretty loudly too. The guaranteed $23 million purse (twelve for Hagler, eleven for Leonard) is the largest in boxing history. And away from the media glare, the Great Adversaries sounded more like cozy capitalists than fuming pugilists. "Marvin asked me about my restaurant," reports Leonard. "I asked him about his sports shop...
...done in two three-hour sprints, since Haring was technically trespassing and could have been arrested by East German border guards at any moment. "They had binoculars trained on me, cameras clicking practically the whole time, and then their heads appeared over the top of the wall to glare at me at point-blank range," said Haring. "I tell you, it was a bit scary." Not a comment to be taken lightly from someone who got his start painting in the New York City subway system...
...York sat up straight and stared. Something about a killing on a summer night in the park, the brooding sweetness of the shadowed grass. Something more about two upper-middle-class teenagers walking casually into a nightmare reserved for naturalistic American novels: sensational grief, sensational murder trial, relentless public glare...
...smelled a newsworthy aberration, always the cause of a stampede, especially in August, when Presidents are on holiday. Fostoria, a town of 17,000 that until Rita Ratchen's sighting was best known for the Fostoria Shade & Lamp Co., a fine glassworks that burned in 1895, went under the glare of world attention. "Yes," the Review Times wrote on Aug. 21, "Fostoria...