Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time manages to restrain her verbal sweat glands and channel her energy into vigorous writing. But if you sweep away her layers of reputation -- her accolades, her past accomplishments, and her present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism. Pauline Kael has become just another opinionator, more fiery and more skillful than most, but without...
Freshmen Sam Butler and Bill Okerman brought home two firsts in the track events as Butler led a Crimson sweep of the quarter-mile intermediate hurdles and Okerman won the half-mile. Butler also captured third in the javelin and 120-yard high hurdles while Okerman carried the second leg of the Crimson's successful mile relay team...
Last week Argentina's present military government struck back, sending out some 100,000 troops to sweep Buenos Aires in a search for guerrillas. Campora's promise to release jailed guerrillas who will work for "national liberation" brought a stinging rebuke from General Elbio Anaya, the Second Army Corps commander whose predecessor was gunned down by guerrillas. The army, said Anaya, will not permit amnesty for "vulgar, unscrupulous assassins" under any circumstances...
...close observation. The new scientific method, stressing reason and logic, was born. Individual scientists might still occasionally be wrong-sometimes outrageously so, as when Newton believed that the sun was inhabited. Yet it was the testing of such hypotheses, however farfetched, that caused a new intellectual excitement to sweep the Western world, a determination to explore, understand and dominate nature, which had hitherto dominated man. Indeed, such was the faith in "natural philosophy," as science called itself, that its practitioners quickly came to believe that all mysteries would eventually yield before it. Science in effect became the new religion...
...full sweep of Picasso's effect on modern art will probably never be documented-not because it is unapparent, but simply because nobody, for 30 years or more, has been untouched by him, so that the lesser details involve meaningless talents and run out in peripheries and shallows. He established collage as a formal device. His Cubist constructions steered the course of modern sculpture away from mass and toward open forms and rigging. His sheet-metal Guitar of 1912 was as prophetic of future sculpture as Demoiselles had been of later painting. His combination of found objects with metal...