Word: lookingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The buzzing little boat and three sister craft were manned by members of an international conservation group called Greenpeace, which was founded a decade ago and has been protesting whaling operations throughout the world. Whenever a fin whale rose up from the depths to blow out air in a watery...
Marinetti, the leader of the futurists, who called himself the "caffeine of Europe," had such an impact in Russia that for decades afterward all advanced or difficult-looking art tended to be lumped, by officials, under the general title of "futurism"; and when Octobrist painters shouted the slogan, "In the...
Lenin had already conceived of a mass culture, separate and distinct from the high culture of the salons and the Bolshoi; and in 1917 the Central Committee announced that "in art, the proletariat is drawn to ... strong, bright and clear forms, to what is complete and has definite meaning." This...
Outlines of what went wrong have been sketched before, most notably by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in A Thousand Days. But Wyden, a former editor at the Saturday Evening Post, McCall's and Ladies' Home Journal, is not satisfied with shadows and rumors. He retraces every false step...
Digital recording-a process that radically improves the sound of conventional phonograph records and could eventually make them obsolete-may be the single biggest sound advance since technicians discovered that two speakers were better than one. "I won't say when it will happen," says RCA Records Division Vice...