Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became a colorful figure in the Greenwich Village art scene and died still unrecognized at the age of 80-odd in 1961. He is currently being honored with an exhibit of 27 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art - and they show what he meant about eyes. Graham evidently felt that the viewer's attention could not be held for long by a figure that had nothing more remarkable than eyes like his own. To make sure this would not happen with his portraits, he endowed his enigmatic paintings of doll-like figures with eyes...
...Washington-Chicago-New York area known as the Golden Triangle has not yet reached that extreme. Still, delays have become so bad that the Federal Aviation Administration last week proposed limits on traffic at major airports in the triangle to make air travel more manageable. The rules are meant to cut down on air and ground holds, which this summer have caused thousands of passengers to arrive at destinations hours late...
None of this mattered much to some of Eugene McCarthy's disappointed supporters, and their leader's stubborn and unorthodox refusal to endorse Humphrey fed their bitterness. For the most adamant in this group, the only hope was to organize a new party, even if it meant a Republican victory...
After college, Murphy latched onto a promotion job with Florida Tile Industries, which meant round after round of businessman's golf. "I looked around," he says, "saw that all I was doing was playing golf anyway, so I decided to turn pro." For a professional prospect, Murphy had two serious faults: weak irons and his fade. But Florida Tile President Jim Sikes agreed to sponsor him, and last fall Murphy entered the P.G.A.'s Approved Tournament Players' school. Only 30 of 111 aspirants won their A.T.P. cards; Murphy was among them...
...some point in the filming of Lylah Clare it was apparently decided to turn it into a spoof of those Holly-wooden melodramas about moviemaking, like The Carpetbaggers or Harlow. Perhaps the film was always meant to be funny. On the other hand, perhaps its producers wanted to broaden the humor because the script was enriched with such heady verbiage as "I'll rummage through your soul like a pickpocket through a stolen purse." Or because one way of dealing with Kim Novak's acting is to pretend that it was meant to be that...