Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dealers continue to exhibit their pet trends as though nothing had happened, but recent art criticism has taken on a glum, apocalyptic tone: "The art currently filling the museums and galleries is of such low quality generally that no real critical intelligence could possibly feel challenged to analyze it...There is an inescapable sense among artists and critics that we are at the end of our rope, culturally speaking...
ONCE ELECTED to the Council, Ackermann always seemed willing to speak her mind, even when it meant confronting powerful City Manager William Corcoran, and especially on her pet issue of rent control. When Corcoran chose the rent control commissioners without consulting with the city councillors, Ackermann was first to attack him: "(He) showed contempt for the four councillors and members of the library board and the blue-ribbon panel on a rent control administrator by not consulting with them," she said at the time...
...leading urban sociologist and co- author of Beyoad the Making Pet. Moynihan helped draft the first Federal anti-poverty legislation in 1963 as an economic advisor to President John F. Kennedy '40. He completed the project in 1964 as the Economic Opportunity Act under President Lyndon Johnson's administration...
...always, Librikov manages to find amusing new ways to air his old crotchets about the waywardness of mechanical contrivances and other intrusions upon daily serenity. The standard taxi door is accurately compared to "an opening for emerging dwarfs." The plumbing in an old hotel is like a whining, stupid pet that tries to follow one out of the lavatory. For all its naughtiness, Transparent Things is also an autumnal, even philosophical work-a feat, considering the book's brevity, even for Nabokov. Apparently finished with the luxuriant digressions of Ada, he is impatient to confront the mysteries...
Proust and Pet. Liv's ideal of conjugal life with Bergman was very conventional. She had a vision of them walking arm and arm along a softly lighted green walk, baby carriage in front and nanny and dog behind. It was a vision out of an old romantic movie or her favorite author, Proust. Ingmar was not interested in wheeling a baby carriage, however, and Liv lapsed into the frightened schoolgirl again. She was not only afraid that the nanny's feelings would be hurt if she pushed the carriage, but she was even worried that the dachshund...