Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the rock culture itself could symbolize. That sense of unlimited possibility died in the next decade. "There was brilliant music made in the 1970s," as Critic Greil Marcus has said, "but because it had no way of linking up to grand mythic dimensions, it lacked the charge much inferior music had some years earlier...
Raising admissions standards and using SAT scores, as is being done by Florida State University, will do little to help the students from urban communities who frequently receive inferior secondary educations. Colleges will again become segregated and elitist, with the disadvantaged locked out. Remedial courses can and do save lives...
...case involved the Bose 901 loudspeaker produced by Massachusetts-based Bose Corp. In a 1970 article, the magazine labeled the speaker inferior, saying that the sound of "individual instruments heard through the Bose system seemed to grow to gigantic proportions and tended to wander about the room." Bose challenged the article and won $115,296 plus interest in damages...
WALLY IS UNQUESTIONABLY the inferior of the pair when it comes to appearances. Short and stout, with balding, frizzy hair that reveals a large melon of a forehead, he sits in marked contrast to Andre--tall, angular, and handsome. Like a baby squeezing a bathtub toy, Andre can play on Wally, eliciting a sputtering high-pitched squeal...
...mend at least some of the failures of cultural communication between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of America. In California, for the past 25 years, there has been a strong tradition of clay sculpture. In New York, by contrast, any sort of earthenware was generally felt to be inferior as sculptural material, compared with bronze, steel, stone or wood. By showing the work of six leading Californian clay sculptors. Curators Richard Marshall and Suzanne Foley hope to show once and for all that clay can take on an expressive power beyond the limits of "mere" craft...