Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the messy things women are caught up in. I like women, and I am aware of their wasted potential." Her aim is to help recondition women so that they no longer "believe that if they don't get married it's a dreadful moral sin...
...moral spirit, and invented a crisis out of wineglass stuff. And for-all the difference it would have made, he might as well have slept with Chloe. It is a very Catholic confusion. Chloe in the afternoon can be patronized, but Chloe in the evening is a mortal sin. Frederic excruciates over a pedantic distinction...
...have never met, but I have fond memories of hearing you speak during my freshman orientation week and of the joke you told about being tried of sin. I hope you remember the one I mean. It was about a church with a sign in front of it that read. "Tired of sin? Come in!" Then you told us that some sneaky Harvard faculty member painted the following line baneath it. "If not, go to work for the Nixon administration." I'll never be as good a story-teller as you, but I hope I didn't week up your...
...random on the floor, tangled webs of rubbery cord hanging from the ceiling like a three-dimensional version of Pollock drips-is partly an effort to give sculpture the fluidity of abstract-expressionist painting and partly a direct celebration of incongruity. Decoration, she believed, was "the only art sin." It was not a peccadillo she ever committed: ugly, difficult and raw though Eva Hesse's work is, it constitutes one of the most forthright statements in 1960s art. ·Robert Hughes
...side-until, at last, they forget why they came in. For Christmas and the New Year, then, let this be their gift: to lose their jaded tastes, their ennui with ordinary extravagance and to gain an appetite for value as well as price. If they must commit the venal sin of self-indulgence, let them learn to do it in style...