Word: planked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no apparent limit to the richness of her patterning. The objects are disciplined by a vertical-horizontal grid, or held like parts of a collage in shallow framing boxes; those formal devices, along with the shapes themselves (the jig-sawed edge of a plank recalling the side of a Braque guitar) allude to cubism. But Nevelson's work, although grounded in a cubist syntax, has very different aims. It is addressed, above all, to mystery. Unified by the black paint, the thousands of objects that make up Mrs. N's Palace shed their identity. They...
...heard. They had to line up behind one of eight mikes on the floor, and no matter how fast they moved, pro-plan delegates often managed to get there ahead of them. Eleanor Lampe, an Iowa cattle rancher, never could get to the mike to talk about the abortion plank. "I grew up in a rural area," she said, "and I've never seen anything like this. I guess you just have to zoom out like a bulldog and leave no room for kindness...
...most emotional issue was abortion, the thorniest was the question of homosexual rights. Many delegates feared that inclusion of a plank calling for the end to discrimination on the basis of sexual preference would discredit the whole national plan in the eyes of the public ?and Congress. During the debate, Betty Friedan, who had long argued that endorsing lesbian rights would hurt the women's movement, rose to announce a change of heart: "As someone who has grown up in Middle America and has loved men?perhaps too well?I've had trouble with this issue. But we must...
...state strategist for ERA, warned that it would be harder to pass the amendment in conservative states if it is associated with the lesbian cause. "Lesbianism has been an albatross on the whole movement since the last century. It is an extra burden we do not need." Nonetheless, the plank was approved by nearly as large a majority as the other resolutions. Lesbians in the galleries roared their approval: "Thank you, sisters!" Pink and yellow balloons were released with the message WE ARE EVERYWHERE. The Mississippi delegation, which included six men, who had been elected along with the women, rose...
...spring, emphasizes the "humanitarian" calculations that entered into the President's decision to embark on the coverup. In retrospect, he says, it becomes easy to think that immediately after the events of June 17, 1972, Nixon should have said "O.K., let's get the truth out, everybody walk the plank." "There wouldn't have been much damage," Price says, "even if John Mitchell were involved. On the other hand, in human terms, I doubt if he could have done that." Price adds that he feels certain that Nixon would have won re-election, even if he had immediately made everyone...