Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...normal for a people of less than 3,000,000, living in the small area we possess, to do what we have done. Our military posture, our scientific and technological achievements, our economic volume do not correspond with these dimensions...
...irrational, but implicitly racist were skimmed over. At one point, Kael claimed that the best films of the next two decades would come from blacks. When pressed to reconcile this with the mediocrity of previous black films, Kael answered that cultures other than Western white ones, which did not possess structured literary traditions, could use film to find "exciting" new ways to express their sensuality. A black friend of mine then hissed. Kael got upset, and asked for the objection to be verbalized. So another friend inquired, "Are you implying that films can be made by morons?" At this, Kael...
...Museum of Fine Arts's excellent show last spring, "Abstractionists of the Seventies," the two or three most striking canvases were those of Jules Olitski. Olitski's particular combination of richness and control has given him an attraction which blander formalists or more effusive color-fielders both possess only half-way. He is at the height of prominence now, and the show of some 60 works at the MFA shows how and why he got there...
Other members of the Eastern regional team don't seem to possess the equanimity of Steele and Carter in the agony of defeat, so they continue to invent new competitions. The first annual Avis memorial Mt. Hood-to-Mammoth Mt.-peak-to-shining-peak sprint was completed by rented cars piloted by "Rat Reid" and "Boomer Mumphord" in the phenomenal time of nine hours, ten minutes. The two covered the normally 14-hour jaunt, crossing over two 8000-foot passes with switchback sections, within five minutes of each other; and the winner, whoever he was, got two cases of beer...
...sentences: "The daggered scoops drove heartily into each bale whoosh picked it up VZZZ carried it to the baths." He repeats words and sometimes even phrases in an effort to tie together ideas, though he is not as successful at it as Kurt Vonnegut. His connections do not possess the absurdity which enables Vonnegut to weave entirely distinct happenings into a master...