Word: objection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object of the study is to statistically analyze mood changes resulting from anti-anxiety narcotics, stimulants, tranquilizers, quaaludes, and amphetamines, and "to establish whether some drugs not yet on the market have the potential for abuse," Orzack explains. The medical researcher recently tested buspar--a drug not yet available in pharmacies--on several subjects. "They didn't like it, so it has more of a chance of being taken strictly for medical purposes rather than for enjoyment...
...woman who has walked down the street and been verbally harassed, and any woman who has feared rape while walking alone in her own neighborhood at night--I might add there is not one female who has not--knows that fighting the image of woman-as-object, woman-as-silenced-victim, woman-as-sex-organ remains among her most urgent tasks...
Winters thinks of the thick paint as "one of the tools and devices associated with expressionism"--but no more than that. He objects to being tagged as a neoexpressionist. "Whatever else it is about," he insists, "my work is not about the self. I want to get at something outside myself; one gets sick of looking at indulgent expressionist pictures that suck all the air out of the room." He prefers to think of his paintings as "diagrams that describe the way the world works," but one has to take this with a grain of salt. Actually, they come...
Words come differently this way, thought Toad. To write a word is to make a thought an object. A thought flying around like electrons in the atmosphere of the brain suddenly coalesces into an object on the page (or computer screen). But when written in longhand, the word is a differently and more personally styled object than when it is arrayed in linear file, each R like every other R. It is not an art form, God knows, in Toad script, not Japanese calligraphy. Printed (typed) words march in uniform, standardized, cloned shapes done by assembly line. But now, thought...
...years that have followed the climax of the counterculture movement, the whole notion of public protest has been slowly but surely (and not accidentally) made into an object of ridicule...