Word: loft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when it comes right down to it, we have no choice: we must beg, cajole, tempt, propitiate, and otherwise urge out professors to pause for a moment, to descend from the high loft of prestige, and to show a little understanding. As my roommate gently put it, "I think the faculty forgets that the college exists solely for us." I don't want the students to become as selfish as the faculty appears to be; that would accomplish nothing. Only compromise can resolve the calendar and Reading Period dilemma, but when one side refuses to moderate its views or simply...
...images. Anything could be dropped on the blueprints and leave its mark. Soon afterward, Rauschenberg made grass paintings?bundles of soil and plant matter held together with chicken wire, from which seedlings sprouted. (The last of these modest forerunners of earth art perished of cold and thirst in his loft down by the Fulton Street docks in 1954.) The results of this clownish exercise, as it looked then, would be of capital importance to modern...
...hicks. Johns came from South Carolina and was painfully shy; Rauschenberg, especially when flown with bourbon, was wont to describe himself as "white Taixas trash." By this time, Rauschenberg's marriage had mutated into friendship, and there had been a divorce in 1953. In 1955 Rauschenberg moved into a loft in the building in lower Manhattan where Johns had his studio. They supported themselves by doing window displays for Tiffany and Bonwit Teller...
...this feistiest of Fourths, it will not be Oh, Say Can You See? in New York harbor. There the longest, widest, heaviest, starriest national banner ever lofted will spread amaze amid the tops'ls of tall ships and raise the first gulp of the day. Hung athwart the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and visible far at sea, the superflag measures 193 ft. by 366 ½ ft., bigger by half than a football field, weighs 1 ½ tons and is constructed like a sail to weather all winds. It was Betsy Rossed in the loft of Marblehead, Mass., Yachtsman-Sailmaker...
...pace is not an easy one to keep up with, even if it is only every four years. This year, the serious Tempest competitors will have spent from $10,000 to $15,000 and thousands of hours on the water and in the sail-loft by the time the trials are over...