Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aimed at the so-called mass culture, the conformity and the averageness of American life. Eg: Rene MacColl, embarking for London shouts "Home soon! I am hopping away from this great, swarming ant heap of a country..." And here, in the ant heap, David Riesman states, "One thinks of ribbon-like roadside slums...man-made rural ugliness.... and the endless aesthetic atrocity of the cities." There is undeniably something...
...often a fighting word in the theater, can also have its savory delights. Two blue-ribbon samples: Mickey Rooney and the late George M. Cohan, Broadway's celebrated Jack-of-all-theatrics. Last week, serving up a double helping, NBC presented Rooney as Cohan in Mr. Broadway, a 90-minute biographical spectacular with all the trimmings...
...prancing white stallion (loaned from a local livery stable), decked in the soaring wings of Pegasus and tied to a gigantic dictionary, chomped the red apple which adorned the red ribbon which separated the eager onlookers from the entrance...
...long-awaited Massachusetts Turnpike was officially opened yesterday as Governor Furcolo snipped the usual ribbon to put 123 mile route into actual use for New England motorists...
...Paris. Though Hartung, at his father's insistence, continued his academic art training, dabbling in mathematics on the side, he had by 1922 already stumbled on the secret of letting the line speak for itself. Set against monochrome backgrounds, it could float as joyously as a ribbon on a June breeze, take on the tension of coiled springs, jam up in anger, ascend in triumph or struggle behind the heavy, heavy black grillwork of despair. But for decades Hartung's new-found language spoke only to himself and a few fellow artists. Between 1922 and 1946 he sold...