Word: munching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edwardian era, which lasted from 1901 to 1914, was the last great age of the society portrait in Europe-"great" not in artistic merit but in the large expectations that people had of portraiture as a form. For us, that appeal has largely vanished: artists like Munch, Kirchner and Giacometti have taught us to expect anything but social ease and confident display from the human head. The social portrait seems exhausted now, a cultural irrelevance. This fall has brought two exhibitions by American artists that underline the demise by recalling portraiture's vanished glories and suggesting its dubious status...
...enormous Helianthus plant is familiar as the source of those light gray seeds that birds like to peck at and kids love to munch. But what is exciting farmers is a somewhat shorter (5 to 6 ft.) variety that yields a dark brown seed containing a high-protein food oil. This fall growers in North Dakota and adjacent states will harvest more than 5 million acres of what they call "flower," double last year's planting and 100 times as large as that of a decade ago. Some 75% of the crop, which will fatten farm incomes...
...usual, sophomore diving sensation Pam Stone grabbed first from both one and three meters. Senior Molly Munch returned to competition this year to take second in both events...
...price revolt in OPEC as Saudi power wanes In Concord, N.H, it took the form of an automobile "honkin" outside Jimmy Carter's re-election campaign office. In Nashville, a 500-lb. pig with BIG OIL painted on its side was led to city hall to munch slops from a dish labeled AMERICAN WEALTH. In Washington D.C., elderly citizens bused in to join a picket line outside the American Petroleum Institute...
...Munch, Munch...