Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theirs to mistrust us. And their inheritance is not all roses, but they manage. They face religion boldly, honestly, making us look the old fools we are. As for sex, with which we are happily or unhappily obsessed, it is no problem to them; they are cutting it to size...
Despite the size of the budget-a record $135 billion-the President has relatively little room in which to maneuver. At least $100 billion can neither be cut nor shifted around. The rest will certainly come in for what House Appropriations Committee Chairman George Mahon calls a "skeptical evaluation" from the 90th Congress...
...right over the living-room sofa; gadgets that jiggle, wiggle, writhe and spin. And, though it is past its peak, there is pop: an assemblage in which a real lawnmower leans against a painted canvas; Brillo boxes designed to look exactly like Brillo boxes; cartoons blown up to mural size, complete with dialogue balloons and lithographic dots; old bits of crumpled automobiles presented as sculpture; an old Savarin coffee can containing 18 brushes in turpentine and frozen in ineffable permanency. Sometimes the subjects are erotic. Edward Kienholz's plaster couple makes love in the back seat of a real...
...posters appear in three forms. One is the size of a newspaper page, inscribed with delicate characters. The second is roughly the size of a sheet of typewriter paper, with its message stenciled or printed for mass distribution. The third is the chuantan, or bill poster, each of which features a single, yard-high character. Enough pages strung together make poster headlines so large that even a simple acid message, such as "Liu Shao-chi is the Khrushchev of China," requires ten yards of wall space...
...German composers such as Wagner and Strauss insisted on Werktreue- allegiance to the printed score. At the end f his career, even Verdi was threatening to sue any opera house that permitted singers to change a single note of his music. The castrato vogue gradually faded, and as the size and interpretive importance of the orchestra multiplied, the composer became the dominant figure in opera. "The singer's margin of creative and imaginative freedom was inevitably inhibited," says Pleasants, "and he became a single element in a vast ensemble subject to the conductor's direct guidance and control...