Word: thesauruses
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...Thesaurus. The show reflects-and is chosen to emphasize-a certain unity of temperament among its members...
...sustain it well or badly. A lot of the work shown here, from Seymour Rosofsky's clumsy paintings to more overtly "aesthetic" objects like Don Baum's lumpen-surrealist assemblages of dolls' limbs or Cosmo Campoli's inert tributes to Brancusi, is a wretched thesaurus of cliches. But subtract them and a deposit of vitality remains...
Moral Chill. Brown's book is considerably more than a rich thesaurus of anecdote. A sardonic muckraker, Brown demonstrates why commercial broadcasting, now a half-century old, remains "Babbitt at 50." The moral chill of the McCarthy era still afflicts the networks. Even in their journalism there is an ever-present binary fear of Government and advertisers. Thus TV-documentary writers begin a special on corruption in Saigon-only to have it scuttled. Then they are assigned a program on patent medicines-and ordered to abandon it. Then they start work on an examination of the military-industrial complex...
...French bread," for example, or "popping back on her feet like a piece of bread from a toaster." He does have a fine ear for dialogue and a relish for tattletales that make Madame entertaining bathtub reading. If someone would do him the favor of stealing his dog-eared thesaurus, he might even make a good gossip columnist. ·Gerald Clarke
...journalism-and have developed since the first issue went to press in 1923. When TIME started out, the research staff consisted of a single puzzled but mightily determined young woman, who clipped newspaper articles and mined whatever information she could from a bookshelf that held a dictionary, a thesaurus, an almanac and a world history book. As TIME'S research efforts became more sophisticated, so did the girls-and their titles. At first they were titled "secretarial assistants"-but known less formally as "checkers." Eventually, TIME'S founders, Henry Luce and Briton...