Word: junks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences reported last spring that healthy adults should not be unduly worried about cholesterol in their diets, boosters of cholesterol-rich foods were gleeful. At last the stigma attached to beef, eggs and junk fare seemed to be lifting. But last week cholesterol's reputation as a major factor in heart disease was buttressed with the publication of a 20-year epidemiological survey of middle-aged American...
...they wait to see how much they'll get from their famous son-or how much they'll have to bear. Some of the burdens are already lifting. The carpetbaggers are leaving, Larry Flynt has closed his paper, the junk shops are starving. Jimmy Carter will be the youngest man since Calvin Coolidge to return from the White House; and surely neither he nor his equally impelled wife can predict their own movements or calculate their effects. They have not really lived in Plains for ten years. But though the townsmen are curious, they're not postponing...
Says she: "I intend to improve the physical and social environment on Waikiki and take action against the prostitutes and sidewalk vendors selling junk. Tourism will always be No. 1 here. We just don't have any choice about that...
...forever. There is the Senior Bowl, the Hula Bowl, the East-West Shrine Bowl and the Blue-Gray Classic, all all-star games. There are the four major Bowls--Sugar, Orange, Rose and Cotton--the four next-to-major bowls--Peach, Gator, Sun and Fiesta--and a smattering of junk bowls, foremost among them the Liberty, Tangerine and Bluebonnet...
...shared feeling that traditional art had somehow failed to reach modern man. The Dadaists sought new modes of expression that would make art relevant to life. Taking this idea literally, they introduced everyday objects and materials into art. Duchamp created "readymade" sculptures using old urinals, bicycles and other assorted junk. Kurt Schwitters invented the term "merz" for his art, defined as a "fusion of all conceivable materials for artistic purposes." Collage and photomontage became chief modes of expression...