Word: schad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roll up revealing a nude dancer doing her bumps and grinds in a glass booth. But Mount Ephraim had a zoning ordinance that in effect banned all live entertainment, while allowing such commercial activities as restaurants, retail stores and beauty salons. In 1976 the bookstore and its operators, James Schad and Toni Taylor, were found guilty of violating the ordinance and fined $300. Although Schad and Taylor invoked First Amendment protection. New Jersey courts held that the case was strictly a zoning matter...
...French tradition of measure, delectation and ordered feeling, of art "above" politics, was a cold, laconic, even squalid-looking art that wanted to contribute its voice to the tormented political theater of the Weimar Republic. It was antiexpressionist too; painters like Otto Dix, George Grosz or Christian Schad, having survived the 1914 war, and being immersed in the suffering, inflation and political instability of their defeated country, had no time for the cloudy redemptive ecstasies of German expressionism: its inwardness was, so to speak, an insult to the collective. "My aim is to be understood by everyone," Grosz wrote...