Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate in the House of Commons was heated and noisy, so naturally the Honorable Member from Brent East was in the thick of it. Discussing the deaths of suspected terrorists in Northern Ireland, Ken Livingstone suggested that the British Attorney General was an "accomplice to murder." Tories shouted, "Withdraw! Withdraw!" and the Speaker admonished the Labor M.P., demanding that he rephrase his comment. As Livingstone sat silently unrepentant, the Commons voted to oust him from the chamber. A sword-bearing sergeant at arms escorted him out the door...
...Captain Midlife has never got it into his thick if frangible skull that his life is exactly where it is, consisting of a loving wife, three loving children and a loving dog, which, while no Westie, has much fine oddness to recommend it. Well, sometimes he understands this, and sometimes he does not. When he does not, his mind packs up its belongings and sets sail like Ulysses (the very first Captain Midlife), hopping from port to port, dreaming up a storm. The Captain knows too well what the voyage of Ulysses was all about. Circe gives the old come...
...what if the new Radcliffe Quadrangle Ice Project uncannily resembles those cunningly frosted windows with the little silver strips running through them which we all associate with the common bathroom? So what if the thick metal poles which surround the actual chickenwire-and-ice construction lend the whole a surprising resemblance to a whimsical construction site? So what if it's far too cold to visit the whole installation for more than 10 seconds, even when one is fortified with all the hot cider that Cabot House can furnish...
...superrefined Still Life (Three Red Apples, Cup, Can, Spoon), 1920, in which the Japanese passion for wabi -- unfussed, natural simplicity -- finds its way into a still-life scheme inherited from Andre Derain. When Umehara Ryuzaburo went to extremes in 1938 with Nude with Fans, the limbs drawn in thick dissonant red and green lines, his prototype was Matisse's work of 30 years before. Occasionally one picks up some shadows and echoes of cubism -- a broken plane here, a little faceting or transparency there -- but in general the Japanese seem to have avoided it, with one exception: Yorozu Tetsugoro...
...this, unfortunately, was about as strange as it got. The time the waitress in the topless bar ran screaming after a man with a thick Greek accent threatening to kill him was unaccountable, but not really strange. Most of the time was spent as an accountant at Touchstone Pictures might have planned, attending brunches, talking with celebrities, attending luncheons, watching movies, attending dinners. We members of the press accumulated our meticulous notes and tape-recordings, got tipsy, ate too much, and sat around being friendly with strangers...