Word: lock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full-page newspaper ads promising 20% discounts across the board. On the first day, a crowd of shoppers waited in line for more than an hour before the paneled doors were opened. The crush of people was so intense that fights broke out and fire fighters had to lock the doors to keep any more shoppers from squeezing inside...
Last season, Harvard (2-4-1 overall, 2-4-1 ECAC) left Starr with a mere two losses and a lock on the league lead. Last night, the Crimson walked out with its fourth loss--one more than it had all last season--and a standing far from Colgate (7-1-0, 6-1-0) and first place...
...problem is that although art has always been a commodity, it loses its inherent value when it is treated only as such. To lock it into a market circus is to lock people out of contemplating it. This inexorable process tends to collapse the nuances of meaning and visual experience under the brute weight of price. It is not a compliment to the work. If there were only one copy of each book in the world, fought over by multimillionaires and investment trusts, what would happen to one's sense of literature -- the tissue of its meanings that sustain...
...Gagosian and the rest of his ilk in a bag and shook it for a week you wouldn't get an ounce of connoisseurship. But that is not what counts. What does count is the instinct for when to grab the chicken, the hot artist, and get a lock on his or her work...
...years it had stood as the symbol of the division of Europe and the world, of Communist suppression, of the xenophobia of a regime that had to lock its people in lest they be tempted by another, freer life -- the Berlin Wall, that hideous, 28-mile-long scar through the heart of a once proud European capital, not to mention the soul of a people. And then -- poof! -- it was gone. Not physically, at least yet, but gone as an effective barrier between East and West, opened in one unthinkable, stunning stroke to people it had kept apart for more...