Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This cross-section of Harvard and Cambridge people also gave the union a chance to give the festivities a strongly political note. "We need the support of the community as we go into contract negotiations," said Kaye Wild, a party organizer...
...Editors' Note...
Probably the most ambitious perfume peddler is Herb Alpert, the trumpeter. He spent five years mixing his own curiosities in a lab at home before coming up with Listen, a floral scent for women. Muses Alpert: "A fragrance has an opening note, a treble, bass and midrange." His product, a sellout in California boutiques, may achieve volume as well...
...that the pastoral mode is on its last legs today, weakened by irony and excess self-consciousness; although a vivid little tablet of color by Howard Hodgkin, In the Public Garden, Naples, 1981-82, argues that it can still be used without a false note. But this show leaves no doubt about how much it mattered to earlier generations of artists or how enduringly grounded in man's desire for consolation it proved...
...movie spoofs everything possible. The hospital is called "Our Lady of the Worthless Miracles." Condoms are called "Titans" (not Trojans) and are slightly larger than usual. And while some film comedies are content to have someone note that the food in their refrigerator is so old it could walk on its own, in Naked Gun, the food actually does make its way across the top of a refrigerator. But since the movie is spoofing TV rather than the movies, it lacks the more ambitious structure and plot that the Airport movies provided for Airplane...