Word: pelts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York's Radio City Music Hall, where he will be joined but never upstaged by the Rockettes. "The Music Hall is a temple to entertainment," he says. True to form, Liberace is planning to put on the dog-and just about every other animal with a furry pelt. The topper: a 12-ft. by 16-ft., 175-lb. Norwegian blue shadow fox coat priced at a hair-raising...
Getting serious also means getting down to business and avoiding the abundance of visual bromides that pelt down on most videos like a fine acid rain. There are honorable, even commanding exceptions (see box), but the majority of clips now in circulation are labored ephemera with heavily imitative associations, fully worthy of one executive's dismissive characterization as "this year's satin jackets." Observes Temple: "A lot of videos steal surreal images from places like Zoom magazine and the French Vogue...
Harvard continued to pelt the Eagles' goal, finding halfbacks breaking free from midfield or getting good crosses from the wings...
...like green breasts and buttocks, heaving perceptibly in his preferred light, that of a young spring morning. The plowshare slices into them suggestively. His best landscapes from the '30s, like Spring Turning, 1936, are votives to the original dea mater: man makes his brown tattoos on that vast pelt, but they will pass, and he and his horses are no more than fleas...
...Vegas. In the background of a wirephoto showing Kim lying still, a striking number of the Caesars Palace spectators are balling their own fists. More than 50 years ago, Writer Irvin S. Cobb described the fight fan: "He is a soft-fleshed, hard-faced person who keeps his own pelt safe from the bruises, but whose eyes glisten and whose hackles lift at the prospect of seeing someone else whipped to a souffle...