Word: phantasmagoria
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...Deco phantasmagoria of mirrors, sweeping staircases, balconies and nooks, in a style evocative of old French Line ships. "Do your own thing," say the owners, "and communicate...
CLAES OLDENBURG is not just a sculptor, he is a magician. Ordinary objects, under his hands, metamorphose into vital and eloquent forms; he can create an Ovidian phantasmagoria from a cigarette butt, or animate a movie camera. His art works imaginative miracles with the stuff of everyday existence. Typewriter erasers are infused with life, clothespins garbed in symbolism. He's the type of person who could change your water into wine...
...obviously correct. The atmosphere in Washington is a weatherman's nightmare: It changes all the time. Right now we witness another phantasmagoria of events in Washington, and we are tempted to insist on knowing who did what to whom when and why. More facts come in, and they confuse us. We will never know, we complain, expecting to judge men's guilt with the omnipotence of the Old Testament God. We probably will never know the answers to those questions. But we should ask other questions. The truths of history go beyond the guilt and innocence of individual...
...When it comes to guns, anything is possible in what Polemicist Robert Sherrill (The Accidental President, The Drugstore Liberal) calls "a phantasmagoria of roscoes." Although the U.S. has no corner on the world's violence, no nation offers its citizens such grand opportunities to display their dissatisfactions with such destructive results. A few random examples, courtesy of Sherrill's research: Dateline New York. Two youths ask a shopkeeper for apple pie. He offers them Danish pastry instead and is shot dead. Ohio. An engineer living near an Air Force base tattoos a number of bomb-laden...
...obviously correct. The atmosphere in Washington is a weatherman's nightmare: it changes all the time. Right now we witness another phantasmagoria of events in Washington, and we are tempted to insist on knowing who did what to whom when and why. More facts come in, and they confuse us. We will never know, we complain, expecting to judge men's guilt with the omnipotence of the Old Testament God. We probably will never know the answers to those questions. But we should ask other questions. It is time to realize that the truths of history go beyond the guilt...