Word: singularize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, she confided, there were at least three or four different men over the course of her life that she probably could have happily married, if only she had met them during the appropriate stage of life. I was confounded. I had always believed that there was something cosmically singular about one's life partner. Stacey was suggesting that romantic fate had less to do with the dictates of Venus and more to do with one's academic or employment status at any given time...
...Harvard. To this day, I believe that the council is not designed for politics. But that does not mean the elimination of politics has not bred new problems. The painful reality is that all the grandstanding and junior senatoring the council used to do concealed and distracted from the singular and most fundamental reality of the council: It has virtually no power whatsoever...
...finally, an entrepreneur unlike any other: Jim Moran, 89, who, until he retired in 1985, reigned as supreme master of that most singular marketing device--the stunt. Highlights: he sold an icebox to an Eskimo on behalf of the American Ice Manufacturers Association. He personally hatched an ostrich egg by sitting on it for 19 days, 4 hrs. and 32 min., on behalf of the 1947 movie The Egg and I. For producer David Merrick, whose Broadway show The Matchmaker needed a little extra coverage, he dressed an orangutan in a chauffeur's suit and set the creature...
Forlani, meanwhile, is a dazzlingly gorgeous find. Her liquid eyes, perfect complexion and high cheekbones give her a look so defined and unique that the camera constantly finds new angles to show off her singular beauty. Unfortunately, Forlani seems a graduate of the Brad Pitt School of Acting. Her role, as written, might as well be Oscar bait--a young, intelligent woman who has found the love of her life must now come to terms with both the loss of this love and her own father to the same force. But Forlani refuses to dig deep. Her performance is strangely...
...what of the work? Varnedoe's catalog essay bears the title "Comet: Jackson Pollock's Life and Work," which fits the eclat and brevity of Pollock's appearance. But comets eventually swing back on their orbit and return, whereas Pollock was a singular and not a cyclic event, more like a meteor that plows into the earth and wreaks havoc on its climate, filling art's air with fallout. Artists have been defining themselves and their work against Pollock ever since. Yet most of his influence was indirect. Pollock's mature style--based on dripping and flinging skeins of paint...