Word: possession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People act, in short, as though names do possess strange power. Indeed, some names act as though they have the upper hand, sometimes persisting against all efforts at eradication. Cape Canaveral stuck where it was put long ago in spite of efforts to displace it with the chimerical name of Kennedy. Sixth Avenue remains just that to many New Yorkers in spite of diligent efforts to promote the general use of the 33-year-old legal name, Avenue of the Americas. Mount McKinley is still not generally accepted by Alaskans, who tend to prefer the peak's original designation...
...Dracula is the definitive male chauvinist pig. He wants to possess," says George Hamilton, who plays the sanguineous count in the movie Love at First Bite. In this comic version of Bram Stoker's 1897 play, Dracula turns up in Manhattan, where he gets mugged on the street, assaulted by an admiring female on the subway and caught in a brownout. Enough, one might say, to make a count go batty...
...Hans Hofmann, the doyen of abstract expressionist teachers. More important for her work, however, was a stint as a dance student with Martha Graham: the sense of significant gesture in Graham's choreography does seem to have affected the movement of Frank's own sculptures. The best of them possess the unfolding completeness of dance. Her work, in fact, is an ambitious metaphor illustrating the continuity between intelligence and sensation, between mind and body, between body and the world it inhabits. Because these continuities are not everyone's property (and never have been), one might see Mary Frank...
...absurd to think of words as being indecent and immoral," Carlin said last night. "Those are qualities that only people can possess. Words are merely symbols and, as such, cannot harm us," he added...
...entering a resource-oriented era, in which the companies that control resources, or have the capital and technology to develop them, will prosper. Similarly, the nations that possess those resources will dominate-economically and politically...