Word: softer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brandon and Ross Miller's sculpture, dripping wine, arrests the eye, ear, nose. One of three beautifully engineered sculptures, the work balances stretched steel cable, rods, and shimmering planes. Wine slides and spatters down its contours. Further on, Anne Taintor's silkscreen parrot quilt hangs in downy color, a softer statement; to the right large line drawings assert strength and sensuality...
...streets of Rome, she rides in a chauffeured limousine. But on TV commercials in Japan these days, Actress Sophia Loren travels more breezily -on a Honda motorbike. "We needed a softer image to promote the idea that bikes like ours are for ladies also," says a Honda spokesman, explaining why Loren, 41, was hired as Honda's first foreign huckstress. Sophia, who spent five days putt-putting for the cameras outside her Italian villa, now joins some other well-known Westerners who advertise wares on the Japanese tube. Among them: Actors Charles Bronson (men's cosmetics), Orson Welles...
...other end of the suite, however, was a glade of softer music, yellow light, and marijuana smoke. Here you could glimpse such improbable pairings as the managing editor of the Harvard Crimson and a young turk from the Porcellian Club or a poorly-sculpted Eliot House jock and a cloistered aesthete from Adams House, both couples engaged in conversation over cigarettes. In this rarefied atmosphere stone figures talked lethargically on the couch, while others on the floor sucked earnestly at joints. Whenever I wandered in here, stripped to a tee shirt and sweating--anomalous among the taxidermic figures of this...
Listen. Between the clicks of the taxi meter and quiet complaint of a car engine, the residual hum of music made by machines reminds you that you went to 15 Lansdowne Street, danced, drank, had a dashing good time. The hum is softer than anything you will hear
...presidential campaign. Ronald Reagan met several months ago in Boca Raton, Fla., with former Panamanian President Arnulfo Arias, whom Torrijos ousted in 1968. Earlier Reagan had accused the Administration of "giving up the defense of the hemisphere on the installment plan." As for Arias, he reportedly promised a softer Panamanian stand if he returned to power. Torrijos seems to accept the Ford Administration's efforts to keep negotiations low-key until after the November elections...