Word: teething
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rockefeller would go over with the G.O.P. rank and file, but would not oppose the New Yorker. Said a top White House adviser: "The President discovered, somewhat to his surprise, that the ancient bile among conservatives had diminished. Rockefeller was no longer able to make the dragon show its teeth...
...elevated earlier in the month. The show's relentless producers, recognizing a heart-rending episode when they saw one, arranged for art to imitate lift. Margo and Eileen are facing their new face with equanimity: "It's no different from having one's hair colored or teeth capped." Or eyes debagged, an off-screen drama that Actress Letchworth lived through seven years...
What is bigger than a bakery truck, has skin like sandpaper, three rows of pointy white teeth and beady black eyes? Of course, it is Hollywood's newest star: a 25-ft. mechanical great white shark named Bruce...
Ironically, the sponsor of that controversial bill is Lyndon Johnson's former friend and fellow Texan, Representative Jim Wright. Sympathetic to the billboard lobby, Wright has proposed several "beautification" amendments to the 1974 Highway Construction Act that take the teeth out of earlier legislation. The 1965 law prohibited signs within 660 feet of the right of way. Advertisers responded nimbly by placing jumbo signs just beyond the 660-ft. limit; they were even more unsightly than the smaller signs adjacent to the road. To counter this violation of the spirit of the law, the Senate Public Works Committee recently...
...Sant'Angelo in Formis (see color overleaf) are flesh-made-geometry. Even when a mosaicist tried to be more "naturalistic," as the Venetian artist who executed a Head of an Apostle in Rome around 1218 seems to have done, the medium itself-thousands of glass cubes like colored teeth-automatically formalized the work...