Word: sturgeon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Danse, 1909, and the red-hot metallic forms of The Woodcutter, 1912, are a Tolstoyan version of Leger's "tubism." Aviator, 1914, plays with the standard emblems of Cubism -- printed words, a hat, an ace of clubs. But it has to be the only Cubist painting with a sturgeon...
Reared in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., and a graduate of Lawrence College in the same state, Dick combines a folksy sense of humor with finely honed competitive instincts. He started with TIME in 1969 and joined our Detroit office in 1974. There he found himself running neck and neck in ad sales with fellow Detroit staff member Jeff Cornish. The two men bet a pair of shoes on the outcome. "It was close," Cornish recalls, "but he edged me by $600 for the year. Then he dashed out and bought himself the shoes...
...about to witness the strength of street knowledge." What they know from the street may not be what the heartland wants to hear. The message may be cleansing or hateful; the lyrics and limericks may expand or debase the language. And if X-rated pop adheres to writer Theodore Sturgeon's useful rule that "90% of everything is crud," most of it may be awful -- just dirty, not funny or erotic. But even at its grossest, the form is a vital expression of the resentments felt by a lot of people. Get used to it, America: we live...