Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professors have also questioned his legal distinction, Louis H. Pollack, dean of the Yale Law School, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Carswell appeared to possess "more slender credentials than any nominee in this century...
...International Society for Krishna Consciousness was founded four years ago by the Indian Swami Bhaktivedanta. It now has active chapters in every major American city, and thousands of adherents throughout Western Europe and Japan. For these devotees, Bhaktivedanta possess Krishna knowledge. He is their spiritual master...
...finale in which the hero stabs the nude girl. "We're turning the whole picture down," says Mrs. Avara. "They insult us by submitting stuff like this." Among the films banned last year was I Am Curious (Yellow), the Swedish import found by federal district courts to possess sufficient "redeeming social value" to qualify for constitutional protection...
...thumb through the skin of an orange and break it apart; smell it, taste it, hear it, use it, squeeze it, chew it, digest it, decompose it, excrete it, put it against our foreheads on hot days and in our pockets on the way to a show. We possess it like no other art. Unlike other arts, it doesn't conceal its etymology quite as completely. The orange is non-figurative, non-metaphorical. The orange, as food, does not stand for something else except an orange and the nutrients it contains. It is its own metaphor...
...Decorated columns divide the space where figures in relief act out scenes from the Virgin's life. Dressed in heavy gold drapery, resting on a jeweled background, the figures seem half involved with the action and half aware of the spectator. None of the other works in the show possess this shocking brilliance, yet most deal with thinking human beings acting in religious scenes. The artists begin to explore the feelings of the actors even though they never slip from their stylized forms...