Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lance presented himself as a wronged public servant, condemned as guilty by his critics and a sensation-bent press before he could fully set forth his own defense. Invoking the Bible and Abraham Lincoln, he rather grandiosely said that his ordeal was a test of the system by which the...
The 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...
Next to Halprin, Architect Philip Johnson, 71, is probably the man most interested in water as art. "Modern architecture is so dull and flat in itself that architects began looking for something to enliven it-and they remembered Rome." So says the man who added fountains to the foreplaza of...
Dougie and I climb aboard Fat Albert's gondola, Dougie fires the burners again, and our craft ascends into the New Jersey mist. In the distance, other balloons move like baubles on a mobile, rising and dipping in the breeze. There is solitude in the air. Except for the...
There, literature and painting-the word and the image, deadly enemies in America-had merged. This fusion had been started a century before by Baudelaire, Mallarme and the symbolists. Their belief in direct equivalences between color, sound, sensation and memory struck Motherwell as one of the supreme achievements of culture...