Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than two drinks a day. Pregnant women are cautioned to skip liquor altogether. Other advice: adolescent girls and premenopausal women should increase consumption of calcium-rich foods to guard against osteoporosis, and children and women of childbearing age should be sure to eat foods high in iron to prevent anemia, a condition prevalent in low-income families...
Spain has the Catalan sculptor Susana Solano, 42, whose constructions of sheet iron, mesh and rods are based on the image of baths and attain a weird intensity in balancing the plain, structurally explicit means of minimalism against an atmosphere of secrecy and menace: they could be prison cells or metaphorical labyrinths...
...Noah is Cragg's gloss on the perpetuation of genetic traits, a DNA helix made up of children's soft toys -- bunnies, horsies, teddy bears and heffalumps -- absurdly cast in bronze. Perhaps weirdest of all is Cragg's untitled sculpture of an enormously enlarged Paleozoic conch shell done in iron, the monster ancestor of all wind instruments, reposing on top of iron replicas of cases for a trumpet and a trombone -- eating its children or giving birth to them, whichever you prefer...
...Python's Minister of Silly Walks, enters the picture as Archie Leach, a barrister hired to defend yet another member of the gang. Though Cleese has written himself some nice screwball-comedy turns, Leach is no Cary Grant. He is really a grownup Tweety bird, an innocent with an iron will...
...heart of the mess lies the so-called Iron Triangle, the web of cozy relationships among Pentagon officials, defense consultants and military contractors. The scandal has shed light not only on a few suspected of corruption but on an entire system that seems tailor-made for cheating. It has become common practice for top military men to retire and head straight for consulting companies -- sometimes known as Beltway bandits or rent-a-general firms -- where they sell their expertise and contacts to defense contractors...