Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first plantings were made in what was to become the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In those heady years, Robert Thornton, a physician and amateur botanist, spent his passion and his fortune commissioning paintings and engravings that he hoped would become a national treasure. The Temple of Flora (New York Graphic Society; Ill pages; $35) is an exquisite review of his labor. Bankrupted by printing costs and later ridiculed for the romantic style of his notes, the collector left behind some of the most beautiful depictions of flowers ever produced, a treasure for the eye, if not for England...
...Clare Martin, a petite freshman who co-manages the freshman football team, answers the question a different--and more graphic way. "I was at this party once, when this guy started bothering me. All of a sudden three freshman football players came over, and the guy left." Martin adds, "I feel like I've got 82 big brothers...
...magazine after only three issues. Notice, though, that the Express puts its calendar listings in the front, seven pages of how to eat, drink and be amused, before even a single article. But at least the listings are well-written. Anthony Lewis graces this week's cover (with a graphic depicting the front page of the New York Times, though Mr. Lewis resides exclusively at the opposite end of the front section); Herb Swartz's story is titled "A Man Who Loves Words Too Much to Take Them Lightly." Herb Swartz loves words too much ever to cross...
Gilliam, the one American in the Python troupe, got his start in New York in the early 1960s as assistant editor of Harvey Kurtzman's humor magazine Help!, which specialized in live-action comic strips called fumettis (puffs of smoke). In Time Bandits, Gilliam is still the innovative graphic artist who brings strange worlds to extravagant life but cannot animate his actors. And he is still blowing smoke in the audience's face, literally and figuratively. Murk swirls through every setting with Bruegelesque squalor and Boschian doom; as a traveler on this time flight, the viewer is less...
...justifications abound: The current administration believes (and, indeed, the last administration believed, though to a lesser extent) in funding for defense research and not for mass transit research, not for nutrition research, not for housing research, and not for pure science. There is little but lasers and graphic displays and the like that they will find; it is no wonder that scientists structure grant proposals to appeal to generals...