Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to hear this amazing thing my pre-med roommate told me last week? Here it is. Take any triangle; assume it's a right triangle for simplicity's sake. OK. Now, measure one of the sides of the triangle you've taken. Now measure the other side. Now multiply the length of the first side you took by itself. Now do the same with the second side. OK. Now measure the third side. OK, now you've made a clean sweep, measuring-wise. Now, multiply the measurement of the third side by itself. (Oh, by the way, make sure...
...music by Sir Edward Elgar, Smiley reminds his operative of a historian who "wrote of generations that are born into debtors' prisons and spend their lives buying their way to freedom. I think ours is such a generation. Don't you?" Jerry laughs: "Sport, for heaven's sake. You point me and I'll march. Okay...
When asked why he intended to leave the one conference room of Cabot open, Decimal smiled and replied, "Hey, we're out for the students' sake too. We plan to keep the video-tape television in here so the students won't miss any of their favorite shows. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go watch 'All My Children...
...slightly-too-charming. "L'Homme Au Parapluie," a line sketch of a clown leaning on an umbrella), is seldom oppressive. It is a nostalgia of both the whimsical and the heroic variety. Don-Quixote-with-a-palette battling that deadly variety of "Art for Art's sake" that produces wall-sized canvases of black on black that cost a hefty amount of green bills on green...
...largely the artist's ability to convey the energy (and almost the noise and smell) of his subjects that makes him unique. His prints are rarely decorative for the sake of decoration alone. They may be funny, frightening, or magical but they are never static. His subjects may ignore the physical laws of gravity and classical theories of perspective but they are very much alive...