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...American lexicon of the 1960s and '70s, those words were synonyms for the enemy. In the paddy fields of Indochina, in jungles and deserts and tumbledown villages elsewhere around the world, leftist insurgencies seemed to be the cutting edge of Soviet expansionism, a principal cause of American retreat and defeat...
...takeover battles that T. Boone Pickens and others have waged over the years have produced some of the business world's most colorful terms. Among these distinctive additions to the lexicon of corporate America: GOLDEN PARACHUTE. THE GUARANTEE OF A HEFTY PAYMENT TO TOP EXECUTIVES WHOSE COMPANIES LOSE OUT IN THE TAKEOVER GAME. SUCH AGREEMENTS...
Secretary of the Navy John F Lehman Jr. has been waging a one-man war against what he terms "the bureaucratization of naval language." Last week, in an effort to restore "our nautical lexicon," he ordered all Navy facilities to return to traditional usages by Jan. 1. No longer will passageways be halls or heads identified as toilets. Windows will once again be portholes, and ceilings will be overheads. Lehman, a naval aviator, also objects to recruiting pitches like "The Army wants to join you," feeling that such lines convey a "sense of apology" about the military. Says Lehman...
...amateur, Adams once wrote, photography is a "visual diary system." His more than a half-century of work recorded no events, captured no history. It was instead a kind of elegant unworded poetry whose lexicon consisted of mountains and trees, water and stone, the play of light and shadow. In a work like Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941, probably his most famed single image, Adams' camera revealed the spiritual still point of a turning world. The heart of his own spiritual world was Yosemite National Park, a place he visited in his work and imagination over and over again...
...constructivist, "drawing in space," their internal imagery is very much not. Her works like Zaga, 1983, or Cantileve, 1983, when one gets down to the detail, begin with a profusion of animal and botanical spare parts that Graves has cast directly in bronze. The things in her delirious lexicon of shapes include the fiddleheads of giant ferns, fragments of woven rattan, dried anchovies, pig intestines from the Chinese market below Canal Street in New York City, leaves of the Monstera deliciosa (another bow of homage, this time to Matisse, in whose late works that indoor plant is a constant character...