Word: summed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Announcing the expulsion to the House of Commons, Donald Jamieson, Secretary of State for External Affairs, said that an unnamed Mountie was approached in early 1977 by two Soviet diplomats (one of whom he knew from a previous assignment). The officer was offered "an unlimited sum of money" to provide profiles of his R.C.M.P. colleagues and information about the force's counterespionage operations...
...cast in polyester resin and fiber glass painted to look like real skin, clothed in real garments and provided with genuine glass eyes. The craftsmanship is meticulous, not to say obsessive. It produces not images but model people-androids without the electronic guts. Each plastic scalp is the sum of myriad transplants; thousands of strands of fuzz are pricked into the cold, immobile forearm; the pigment on the skin replicates flesh down to the very last pore, zit, shaving nick and burst vein, while every T shirt and pair of overalls displays exactly the right degree of grunge, wear...
...proclaimed sensitivity, the connections are strained, and the themes themselves are pretentious or trivial. In the rare instances where concept albums have succeeded (Randy Newman's Good Ole Boys, for example), the songs have seemed like elements of a large orchestral work; the whole has seemed greater than the sum of its parts. Such records are the exception, though. Concept albums generally fail to do the very thing they set out to do, and they emerge fragmented, insignificant failures...
...their baked domains. Similarly, the New Englander or the Minnesotan boasts about his frozen Februarys and the snow that waits till spring before uncovering the earth again. The Deep Southerner seems proud of those stifling summers that reduce everybody to sweat and distemper. Human responses to weather are, in sum, as variable as the weather itself...
...need a little calm," proclaimed French Designer Jean-Louis Scherrer last week. Perhaps so, but when fashion's big spenders came to view the couture collections for spring and sum mer, they were far from calm about what they saw. In the crowded showrooms of Paris last week, high-stepping models marched off the runways to the sound of ear-tingling applause and rustling checkbooks...