Word: jeans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...groups, as for individuals, taking a new name is a quintessential American act, a supreme gesture of self-creation in the land where Norma Jean Baker became Marilyn Monroe, homosexuals became gays, and Esso became Exxon. But for many blacks, the choice of a word by which others will know them has a special significance. During their centuries of bondage, slaves had names that were often chosen by their masters. Booker T. Washington wrote in his autobiography Up from Slavery that there was one point on which former slaves were generally agreed: "that they must change their names." This process...
...ever heard of a starship captain named Jean-Luc? Captain James T. Kirk would turn over in his grave if he ever found out about his successor--or about any of the nincompoops who make up the characters of Peter David's new novel, The Strike Zone...
...CAPTAIN Jean-Luc Picard is simply a jerk. He is strict with his crew and makes his decisions by the book. He even twitches when he says the word "civilian." Kirk was always wise and likeable. His successor cannot even joke with his second-in-command, whom he insists on calling "Number...
...singers performing eight Bach choral works. But the piece de resistance, which just finished two weeks of performances in Paris and is due in Brooklyn in May, is a 313-year-old opera that almost nobody had heard of for the past couple of centuries. It is Atys by Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to King Louis XIV, and it is a marvel...
Warhol began and ended as a commercial illustrator; what lies between is the interesting stuff. He was an adroit draftsman but not a distinguished one. He soon overcame the influences of his early advertising days (Jean Cocteau and Ben Shahn), but the drawing is never more than efficient. Partly for this reason his freehand "studies" of soup cans or dollar bills never acquire the pressure of the silk-screened ones, but it is hard to see how they could: those coarsely nuanced rows of ready-mades, in taking Duchamp a small step further, remain the most eloquent comments...