Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nostalgia for ancient aesthetic battles only dimly defined through the mists of memory." A case in point. However, Chagall's is a nostalgia that, while occasionally self-conscious (as in the 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...
...radicals like the Chicago Seven. The German lawyers have mastered the art of disrupting cases with obfuscating rhetoric, demands for evidence that is impossible to secure, requests for delays. Lacking any provision for contempt of court, German judges have generally been powerless to control these lawyers; disbarment is a seldom used procedure. Using the privileged status of the attorney-client relationship as a cloak, about a dozen of these lawyers have served-illegally-as liaison between imprisoned terrorists and their colleagues still at large...
...half-mile track is a series of tight, tough curves-carrousels, S's, hairpins and hard rights and lefts-30 in all, with only 80 meters of straightaway in the whole labyrinth. Though the car can seldom reach 40 m.p.h., to the driver, with eyes only three feet above the asphalt, the sensation, if not the speed, is supersonic. He is competing with the clock. As he crosses the finish line, his time is shown in lighted, 2-ft.-high digital figures. First time around it may be a humiliating 98.46 sec. After a few more heart-in-mouth...
...been limited only by the capacity of the Portland stadium; millions watched on television in the U.S. and around the world. Reflecting the popularity of soccer outside the U.S., the game had been beamed to ten countries. Though only a few years ago, soccer attendance in the U.S. seldom exceeded a few thousand, during the just completed N.A.S.L. season, soccer fans flocked to the turnstiles. In their play-off game against the Fort Lauderdale Strikers last month at Giants Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands, for example, the Cosmos drew a whopping 77,691. The New York team averaged...
...What has happened with many breeds is that two separate strains or genetic pools have evolved-good lookers v. good workers. Seldom do the twain meet. Now breeders are starting to say, 'He looks good, but what can he do; what is the breed supposed to do?' They are getting down to the basics, exploring the dog's historical role. Then they not only appear handsome but perform well...