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...lipstick provided Oldenburg with other, related images, such as his proposed monument for Marilyn Mon roe, Lipstick with Stroke Attached, 1971. It looks flat, decorative and in nocuous - until one notices that the gleaming "stroke" of red-sprayed met al, lying flat on the floor, could also be the reaping blade of a scythe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Magician, Clown, Child | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...state," he drawled, "that kind of relationship is recognized as a situation in which two people have 'took up.' The amendment would give better tax treatment for those who have just 'took up' than married people would receive under the law." An in nocuous substitute to the amendment was approved by a voice vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: You Can Almost Start Spending It Now | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...agreement (TIME, Aug. 21) came last week from Sun Oil's President J. Howard Pew. In an open letter to Chairman Tom Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Pew said his chief objection was the "vagueness" of the language, which could make the agreement "as in nocuous or as vicious as its administrators desire." Suspiciously he hinted that the agreement contains "the possibility of a first step in what might be a carefully laid plan for a superstate cartel." Since a government cartel "is no less reprehensible than a cartel entered into by individuals," the Senate should investigate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Mr. Pew Sniffs the Future | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...face does wonders, and we go to Boston. H--is buying a Christmas present for his baby niece in Omaha. He picks out a wooly white cat, very gaga, with green wool eyes. The cat and H--and I stop for a milkshake, my half-eclipsed condition precluding more nocuous refreshment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/9/1936 | See Source »

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