Word: saws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There he converted a conference room into a bizarre workshop. The staff watched with growing curiosity as he collected an improbable mess of dismembered store-window mannequins, overturned cornflakes boxes, scattered cigarettes and disarrayed lingerie, and began to stuff it all into a gutted TV set. With hammer and saw, glue and plaster, Scarfe concocted a many-armed "assemblage." For a final fillip, he managed to attach a serving of spaghetti- which was no mean trick, since the soft strands kept slithering off the plate under the hot photographic lights...
...have a ring of familiarity. Its major proposals -for limitations on the production of nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and restrictions on the movement of nuclear-armed bombers and missile-launching submarines-have been made before, but never came close to being implemented. But the British thought they saw signs of progress. Said one Whitehall official: "There are some points which seem to signify an advance, for they pick up what are earlier Western proposals." The British believe, for example, that Kosygin's proposal for nuclear-disarmament zones might be an oblique response to recent hints from NATO...
...whiffed the foul breath of penury. Nine businessmen rode with cops as they checked vagrants in "the Deuce," a neighborhood of filthy flophouses. Some men mingled with drunks along the downtown Tenderloin skid row. Several housewives spent a day just sitting in the Greyhound bus terminal, where they saw weary, worried mothers board buses with broods of children to start life somewhere else. Other poverty students vicariously shared the pain of knife, gun and mugging victims in the emergency room of the County Hospital, or walked the brawling bar beat with patrolmen. Shaken by their experiences, the students retreated...
...clever professor, he thinks, may be a caricature of Lenin. Obviously, Bulgakov was courageous; he wrote with rare fury for the rest of his life, muffled but not silenced by censors. But the evidence of The Heart of a Dog makes it questionable how clearly he saw things, at least in 1925. To Bulgakov, the proletarian state seemed vulgar, mindless and infuriating, but the book does not give a sense that he felt menaced by it. The growing shelf of Bulgakov's work begins to take the form of a literary puzzle, and a trustworthy biography would...
...beginning of my life, the natural language that was my tool, that now belonged to me alone and had nothing more to do with the land where I had grown up ... I could live in Paris or in Stockholm, in London or New York . . . That evening, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country...