Word: squarish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your hopeful eyes, the large box under the tree at Christmas promised hidden delights. Indeed, as you eagerly tore open wrapping paper, you revealed a gray compact box, two squarish, unwieldy controllers, a zapper gun, and the ultimate in cartridges: "Super Mario Bros." with "Duck Hunt." 8-bit utopia was yours! That first night, you tried desperately to shoot all of those damn ducks, and rescue Princess Toadstool from the clutches of the evil Bowser. In the soft glow of the T.V. screen, your face was radiant and peaceful...
...obscurities in the text, but coming as messages across a cultural gap of nearly half a millennium, they can be maddeningly difficult to read. Portrait of a Married Couple, 1523-24, looks like an ordinary marriage portrait, painted with exquisite fluency and respect: an upper-class man with a squarish, brown-bearded face (he looks oddly like the late Gianni Versace) sitting at a table with an equally patrician woman, Venetian evidently, from the white lapdog she is holding. Her right hand rests devotedly on her husband's upper arm. Marital concord...
Recurring images in Olmec art--dragons, birds, dwarfs, hunchbacks and, most important, the "were-jaguar" (part human, part jaguar)--indicate a belief in the supernatural and in shamanism. Olmec-style human figures typically have squarish facial features with full lips, a flat nose, pronounced jowls and slanting eyes reminiscent (at least to early travelers in the region) of African or Chinese peoples. Archaeologists have found household objects as well, but they tend to be broken. As a result, laments Joralemon, "we know relatively little about the common Olmec...
...newest prime-time star sits in her office, heating a cup of coffee in her microwave oven and fielding compliments from colleagues. One of them, NBC News president Michael Gartner, is in the hall outside her door. "What'd you think?" Jane calls out. "Liked it," says Gartner, a squarish, soft-spoken executive badly in need of some peace and quiet. Pauley senses there might be more on his mind: "You talking about anything . . .?" Gartner saunters toward her and offers one suggestion for the show in a conspiratorial half whisper: "More Jane...