Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...verdict was thumbs down. Henry Kissinger did not like the portrait painted by Boston Artist Gardner Cox. One viewer thought it made him look "somewhat a dwarf," and another pronounced it "a rogues' gallery thing." Not surprisingly, the Government, which had commissioned the art to hang in the State Department with Cox's portraits of former Secretaries Dean Acheson and Dean Rusk, rejected it. "We felt that the portrait lacked Mr. Kissinger's expression-the dynamism which exudes from him," said State Department Curator Clement Conger. Cox will be paid $700 in expenses...
...aftereffects of record-breaking cold and snow will continue to push up prices. Main reason: reduced food supplies caused by transportation snarls. The inflationary impact will be over by year's end, but the residue-about a tenth of a point on the inflation rate-is expected to hang on until the beginning of next winter...
...first cost-cutting moves, Jimmy Carter put the kibosh on all those Government-financed portraits that hang in the halls of Washington. They just weren't the sort of thing taxpayers should spend money on, said Jimmy. Last week the Commerce Department unveiled its answer to the President: a life-size painting of Elliot Richardson, done by the former Commerce Secretary himself. An inveterate doodler, Richardson, who also served as Attorney General in the Richard Nixon administration until the infamous Saturday Night Massacre, loaded his self-portrait with symbolism. He is painted into a corner, Richardson pointed...
...blacked-out stupor, he is bilked of his home, and gangsters lie in wait for him. The son (Ebbe Roe Smith), a touching fool-in-Christ figure, simply wants to hang onto a place that is already lost, and the daughter (Pamela Reed) plans to retrieve the loss by becoming an efficient criminal...
Throughout, the author displays a certainty about what is concrete in ''ordinary life" that would have baffled 2,000 years' worth of philosophers. All of his arguments hang on the Tinkertoy division between what is real and good (trees, marshes, noble savages) and what is deceitful (all artifacts of civilization, especially TV). From this it follows that television 1) obscures the true and the beautiful, 2) turns people into standard-issue consumers, 3) bombards them with artificial light and foreign images and 4) blots out all messages that are inimical to its own survival...