Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artist has ever been so eloquent about his society, or seemed so eager to speak beyond the grave to ours, as Francisco Goya (1746-1828). The idea of a universal painter, capable of addressing humanity in general rather than this or that time and culture in particular, may be a pious fiction, but Goya comes as close to fulfilling it as anyone has ever done. We see his face pressed to the glass of our terrible century, mouthing to make his warnings understood...
...flounders. Thus the busy traders never really stopped to wonder about the unusual behavior of several new colleagues who regularly lost thousands of dollars but kept coming back for more, day after day for two years. Tom Hicks, a trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, remembers one in particular named Peter Vogel: "He was real clean-cut -- wing tips, clipped hair, tie always knotted tightly. He didn't dress like the rest of us. They called him 'the accountant...
...with an assembly line of up to 250 performances a season. Barenboim agreed to take a substantial pay cut, but the arguments over artistic control remained insoluble. "I am not willing to accept the chief executive of a couture house telling me who is best to sing a particular role," Barenboim told a press conference...
...last week, he is still "a huge question mark" in the public's mind. That is putting it mildly: to many people the campaign image of an intellectual lightweight stubbornly lingers. In a Yankelovich Clancy Shulman poll taken for TIME before the Inauguration, half of those questioned had no particular impression of Quayle, and 30% viewed him unfavorably. Asked if Quayle is qualified to assume the presidency, 52% said no and only 30% said yes -- a poorer ratio than the negative vote he drew in August (44% no, 33% yes), when Bush had just selected him as running mate...
...particular, all youth is mad about appearance. For some, it is the designer labels, for others, a flashy neoprimitivism, and of course, the punk hair and fashion styles (somewhat muted) have diffused to become fixtures of a generation whose members feel compelled to make "statements" with green hair, polo players, crystals, and motorcycle boots, even unto the "artful" ripping of jeans--a message that bespeaks both bodily obsession and an obscene consumerism...