Word: mode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facets of Lucas Samaras will be mirrored in an exhibit of 125 drawings and constructions that goes on view next month at Manhattan's Pace Gallery. Included will be drawings that date back to the early 1960s, when he and other young artists were rebelling against the prevailing mode of abstract expression. Samaras' way of celebrating the long-ignored object was to summon up his disturbing Macedonian memories. Matchbook and spectacles, in a 1962 ink drawing, were depicted with the stark frontality of a Byzantine icon. Samaras also created silvery, pin-encrusted books and boxes that suggested silver...
Building on Blue Chips. His mode of departure reflected his belief in calm continuity. Well aware that ad agencies often slow down when their bosses grow old and linger too long, Strouse began planning his own retirement three years ago. He tapped Dan Seymour, a one time soap-opera actor who revitalized J. Walter's television department, to become president. Now Seymour takes full charge of a shop that, thanks to Strouse, is not about to lose its No. 1 ranking. Billings have more than doubled since Strouse was named president in 1955, and currently exceed $600 million. With...
...Mode. At 28, Reed is both the most entertaining new journalist in America since Tom Wolfe and the most unprincipled knave to turn name dropping and voyeurism into a joyous, journalistic living. His detractors appear to be in the minority, however, and to the 30,000 readers who have thus far bought his recent book, Do You Sleep in the Nude?, he is a fascinating gossip who has recast the interview format in his own bitchy image. Son of a Texas oil-company supervisor, Reed spent his formative years in the South traveling from oil boom to oil boom...
...Hovercraft is becoming less of a novelty and more of a serious mode of transportation. A vehicle that skims on a cushion of air over land, ice or water, the Hovercraft carried 370,000 passengers on brief trips along the St. Lawrence River during Expo 67 and proved to be one of the fair's most popular attractions. Now it is being used for such diverse purposes as ferrying passengers between British coastal resort towns and hunting down Viet Cong in the swamps of the Mekong Delta...
...most, the summer school is a mode of relaxation-filler between weekends at the Cape and evenings by the Charles. But not for the esoteric few enrolled in Chemistry...