Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talks, hardly anyone in Washington believes that any substantive moves toward peace will be made before the next President takes office. At best, the negotiators in Paris may have settled what they call the "modalities": such inconsequential but emotion-charged issues as seating arrangements, speaking order, briefing rules, and myriad other details...
...will be the hallmark of the Nixon Administration." He may have been setting too high a standard for any political regime. With six or seven "key aides," Klein will work in the Executive Office Building, just west of the White House, to coordinate the information pouring forth from the myriad federal agencies. "I won't have the power of veto," insisted Klein. "Extending the flow of news is what I'm interested in." But he admitted that the object of his new job, unprecedented in the Federal Government, will also be "to develop a better image...
Last week "The Machine," a ten-week-long exhibit of 220 works detailing the myriad ways in which artists have viewed the mysterious powers that inhabit cogs, gears and transistors, opened at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art.* The exhibit (see color pages) was put together by K. G. Pontus Hulten, 44, who as director of Stockholm's Moderna Museet staged one of the first kinetic art shows back...
...Western monetary system. The money managers and bankers of Europe and the U.S. assembled in Bonn in an emergency session, and solemnly rendered collective judgment that the franc must be devalued. The French braced for the worst, and the money men in capitals around the world prepared for the myriad adjustments in trade and currency flows that a cheaper franc would require. De Gaulle's critics could scarcely contain their glee that, at last, the oracle of the Elysée would be found fallible and forced to retract an utterance...
Oldenburg had gone on from plaster to vinyl and canvas. In 1962 he dreamed up monster hamburgers and bed-size pistachio ice-cream cones. Since then he has sketched a myriad of delightful "proposed colossal monuments" for Manhattan, including a giant Teddy bear for Central Park, and a mountainous baked potato for the front of the Plaza Hotel. Conceivably, Manhattan's festival organizers also expected him to whip up the baked potato. Instead, he had the city hire two gravediggers, who dug a 3-ft. by 6-ft. hole in Central Park, then carefully filled it in. He called...