Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine in an arcade operator's collection in Great Neck, N.Y., a week and a half before the exhibit was to open. The museum also unearthed one of the last surviving copies of Death Race, the 1976 game that stirred a storm of * protests when parents noticed its grisly object: to drive a car over as many pedestrians as possible, replacing them with tombstones...
...Some may object that the association I am proposing will have primarily moral force," Bhutto said. "I acknowledge this, but I would urge that morality has a larger power in international relations than commonly recognized...
Mallarme had written of the impalpable reality that poetry must somehow approach: "To conjure up the negated object, with the help of allusive and always indirect words, which constantly efface themselves in a complementary silence . . . comes close to the act of creation." Wilmarth's singular project was to create the spirit of reverie that surrounds the "negated object," but in that most object-affirming of arts, sculpture, and to seek its poetic effects in heavy industrial materials -- steel and glass. Typically, Wilmarth, a Californian who spent most of his working life in New York City, adopted...
...logs. He interprets Shaker design in a 10-ft.-long bench made from a single plank of black walnut set with a spidery backrest of hickory spindles. But his genius is essentially Oriental, akin to that of Zen rock gardening and Oriental flower arranging. Nakashima selects the exact natural object needed to serve a particular purpose. For a recent table, he used an 8-ft. cross section of redwood root. The wild energy of the wood, complete with cracks and holes, strains outward, as if it were trying to dissolve back into the ground. But the wood is held together...
...became the momentary object of disapproval after he referred a question on the proper relationship between professionalism and parenting to Horner...