Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...park private cars, New Yorkers are more desperately dependent on taxis than any other city dwellers in the world. And the thousands of cabs that they ride are among the world's sleaziest: cigarette butts and paper coffee cups on the floor, dirty windows, leprous upholstery, chewed gum and sticky candy wrappers on ripped seats, and jagged metal protrusions on the doors waiting to savage the clothing of entering or departing passengers...
...none of this has been getting too much attention lately. About the only thing for which people are still criticizing Ford is his alleged lack of intelligence, a criticism that has been made for years. Lyndon Johnson reportedly once remarked that Ford was too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time, because in college, Johnson explained, Ford had played football on too many occasions without wearing his helmet. When Eugene McCarthy spoke at the Law School Forum here two years ago, he apologized for having supported legislation that Ford came out for five years later. "When...
...three years I successfully curried her favor--it was the only way to function. I memorized all the assigned passages, never chewed gum, and wore skirts no shorter than two inches above the knee. I knew she liked me best because she let me fill her water glass. I asked myself the question that Hebe must have asked perennially, "Do I dare fix her drink...
...city rooms of many American newspapers are cousins in dishevelment: battered typewriters, mounds of gnawed pencils and crumbling gum erasers, a perpetual blizzard of paper. Nor would turn-of-the-century newsmen have any trouble recognizing many contemporary composing rooms with their mastodonic Linotype machines (first used in 1886) that engorge hot metal and spit out lines of type at a lumbering pace. Of all commercial activities, few have seemed more immune to technological progress than the production of daily papers. But the pace of change is now accelerating. In a small but growing number of offices, reporters are writing...
...tone of the photograph is very different. The calotype image has a soft, fuzzy, dreamy quality--a gentleness that interacts with the figure of the old, blind preacher playing his harp. In every photograph on exhibit--from a mystical photogravure protrait of Yeats to a study of shadows in gum-biochromate by Edward Steichen--the artist/photographer has deliberately chosen a technique that combines with and supports the visual effect he tries to achieve. This exquisite co-ordination of method and result is not Lady Eastlake's "unreasoning power," it is an expression of the great skill of the artist...