Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many teachers and parents are skeptical of computer-controlled, cartoon-like learning devices. They wonder, as Author Fran Lebowitz has put it, what happens when the child "discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens." But the juvenile appetite for dancing letters appears to be insatiable. Indeed, this fall some of the computer software, designed by Children's Television Workshop of New York City, creators of Sesame Street and Sesame Place, will be available in computer retail shops and by direct mail from Apple...
...ending with a city in political and cultural decline, destroyed in 1600 B.C. by the invading Hittites. In 1973 the team found a royal palace from the 3rd millennium and, a year later, a small room with 42 tablets, resembling petrified waffles flung across the floor. The cuneiform on some tablets was Sumerian; on others it was indecipherable. Almost 1,000 more tablets were unearthed in September...
...like any good Englishman, Schama say the recent royal wedding brought home feelings of patriotism. "It's the one thing left from the days of the Empire--the trappings of the culture remain. It was a sort of nose-thumbing at the modern world and a fairly innocuous form of self-deception," he says...
...afternoon before the baseball strike, Kansas City third baseman George Brett rose from a card game in the Royal locker room in Toronto. He was asked to comment on the impending work stoppage...
...awry: we gaze into a cuckooland of cultural pretension. Small wonder that Traversi failed to get the big commissions; but his work stays in the mind long after the more decorative things in this show, the chalky allegories of the arts, the fêtes champêtres and royal hunting scenes, have blurred together in their amicable second rateness...