Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When word leaked that Henry Kissinger was flirting with the notion of running for Governor of New York, it was almost as disorienting as if William ("the Refrigerator") Perry were to announce he was switching from football to tennis. For almost two decades Kissinger and foreign affairs have been synonymous, and it was hard to imagine Candidate Henry working the boardwalk at Coney Island or milking a cow at the state fair. So it was scarcely surprising when he announced last week that he had decided to stick to the global path rather than explore the campaign trail...
Tigerman's four-sided Roman arch is the most literally classical of the lot, although its instant statuary (stucco-sprayed mannequins) does madcap violence to any deeper notion of classicism. Graves' handsome copper-roofed arch is better behaved and more civic than the rest; it wants to be a real building. As for Pelli, the neomodernist turns out to be a cryptoprimitivist. His open-faced sandwich of long two-by-fours forms a kind of aboriginal latticework gate and seems Southwestern in the best sense: simple, staunch, serene...
...space race had become more than a poetic dream. It was now a military imperative. While the Soviets were pushing ahead with their missile program, American strategists had clung to the notion that manned bombers rather than rockets were the most suitable, and somehow the most romantic, way to fight wars in the Atomic Age. With alliances and airfields that ringed the globe, the U.S. had seen no reason to bring the nuclear race into space. Now it was necessary...
...hygiene and a few "moral concepts of sex." The emphasis on physiology is hardly standard. Chinese society has been so reticent and the Communist regime so straitlaced that sexual anatomy was usually omitted from physiology courses. Many newly married couples take to the bridal bed with only a foggy notion of what they are supposed...
This Western point of view "sees through an open door. It is committed to the notion that the real world is external to the observer," Hockney said...