Word: realm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summit will take place in quarters fit for kings. Prime Minister James Callaghan refurbished the second-floor dining room at 10 Downing Street at a cost of $73,000. Air conditioning was installed and six temporary translation booths set up. The men will negotiate in a realm of gold-gold carpet, gold brocade draperies, gold-framed portraits of Lord Nelson and William Pitt gazing imperiously down on more circumscribed statesmen...
...makes some starts in the right direction. He has a dotty King known as Bruno the Questionable. A monster terrifying Bruno's realm is reported to be so horrible that he is capable of turning a man's teeth white overnight. And the story of a cooper's young apprentice, filled with enthusiasm for modern ways, who finds the medieval city no more interested in him than his native village, is serviceable enough?especially as Python Michael Palin plays...
...price of single-family homes climbs beyond the reach of all but the wealthiest. Says Atlanta Businessman Rod Kinder, 51, who paid $89,500 for a New England type house in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody last month: "We decided to buy now before it got out of the realm of reality altogether. It was now or never...
...Noland," writes Curator Diane Waldman in her catalogue essay, "ranks with Delacroix and the impressionists among the great color painters of the modern era. Unquestionably heir to Matisse and Klee in the realm of color expression, he is to his generation what they were to their own." This litany might have read better ten years ago than it does today; it is incantatory rubbish. Delacroix was not a "color painter" in any sense of the word that can be applied to Noland. He was a superb colorist whose art was occupied with matters other than the disinterested play of color...
...appearances. To his mind, the drab, undistinguished-looking mass-produced clothing made in the new factories freed people to invest the clothes with personality. By breaking down the conventions of dress that defined the public image in 18th century London, industrialism let loose the private in the public realm. The emptiness of this seemingly sophisticated explanation evokes the images of the emperor in his new clothes...