Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bottineau points out in the catalog, was fixed more than a century ago by the Romantics. His paintings of cowled monks and saints in meditation seemed to connect with spectacular areas of Romantic fantasy -- the dungeon beneath the cloister, the Grand & Inquisitor's icy hand on the red-hot iron, and an obsession with trance, death and the link between faith and cruelty. This Zurbaran was more or less written into cultural existence by Theophile Gautier in 1840, on a visit to Seville...
...entering into negotiation with legitimate representatives of the country's black majority. The other spelled out areas of trade and finance that would no longer be permitted until those goals were attained, including new U.S. investments in South Africa and the importation of that country's agricultural products, coal, iron, uranium, textiles and military equipment. The clear intent was to give Pretoria a choice: either make major changes in a repugnant social policy or suffer painful economic consequences for not doing...
...family tree shook out impoverished European aristocrats. His iron-willed mother told him, "With a tennis racquet and a dinner jacket, you'll be able to go anywhere in life." Oleg Cassini, 74, needed no other guidance. He lived high, and he lasted. Intermittently a dress designer, he played polo on the Army cavalry team during World War II and basked in '40s Hollywood, married Gene Tierney, drank with Errol Flynn and romanced Grace Kelly, even as her rich parents scoured Europe for bluer blood. Cassini is best known for being couturier to Jackie Kennedy ("I want all ((my outfits...
What can be done to break this iron triangle of social isolation, black joblessness and single-parent families? Even 20 years after the ghettos of Detroit and Newark erupted into the fires of long-suppressed rage, Americans cling to the sanguine faith that some magic formula can end this cycle of poverty and social pathology. More money for social programs, a welfare system with stronger incentives to succeed, the teaching of values in the schools: these are the familiar answers of policymakers. But compared with the gravity of the problems of the black underclass, almost all the standard remedies amount...
...former aerospace engineer, Duclos (pronounced doo-cloh), 53, is one of the most successful new entrepreneurs in the fast-growing field of high-tech golf clubs -- sticks designed to compensate for poor swings. His putters, irons and metal woods are specially weighted to help golfers keep their shots on line. Demonstrating with a five iron at a course down the coast from his oceanfront home in Long Beach, the 6-ft. 3-in. Duclos jokes that "if you can't hit it straight with these clubs, you need a physical." Apparently, many golfers believe his pitch. Duclos's fledgling Huntington...