Word: poked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost anything," he says. He presents his work as a sort of subconscious process of spontaneous generation rather than a plotted contrivance to substitute one thing for another. He is often gently self-mocking, quietly deflating his own balloons. Works like his Paste-up for mitt print with Bob poke fun at the artistic process. The sketched-in mitt is carefully labeled with the materials in which it is constructed; the palm is labeled "lead", the supporting frame "steel", the ball, "wood". The man who is keeping the mitt from toppling over, is labeled...
...freshmen's weaving rushes, slick cross-ice passing, and stiff poke checking straitjacketed the Warriors' forays through most of the seesawing contest before the tables turned in the waning minutes. "Everyone was moving," said Coach Tim Taylor...
...punished with a $200,-000 fine the Italian subsidiary of New York-based Commercial Solvents Corp. for refusing to sell anti-TB drugs to an Italian company that had resisted a takeover bid. Some 40 department detectives now show up without warning at company offices throughout the EEC and poke into files...
...layout doesn't tempt outsiders to poke around in places like Central Square. The buildings form a jarringly uncomplementary string of facades. Each business has developed independently. There isn't an architectural plan, historic tradition, emotional ambience or standard of quality to conform to. The smattering of fast-food franchises with their corny and tediously familiar fronts in Dunkin'-Donuts pink, Brigham's blue, white and red, and Jack-In-the-Box orange is accepted without any qualms. The only required feature seems to be functionality. A store that can supply "reliable shades and screens" is going to come...
...recent candidates' forum in Minneapolis, a woman complained: "He reminds me of Johnny Carson discussing the issues." But Bayh gives his all to everyone he meets. Nobody high or low, friendly or hostile, is spared some gesture of affection-a slap on the back maybe, a poke in the ribs, a jab to the shoulder-as if Bayh were still a Golden Gloves light-heavyweight boxing champion. "If he does that once again," Robert Kennedy is reported to have grumbled, "I'll punch him in the nose." But most people like the Bayh touch...