Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Bellows once remarked, and rightly, that "the name given to a thing is not the subject, it is only a convenient label. The subject is inexhaustible." Yet the label that Bellows gave to his 1909 masterpiece at Washington's National Gallery has weight. Both Members of This Club, he calls it, and there a black man and a white are trying to beat each other's brains out for money...
...floor. Heavier cars tend to have sturdier thunks, but lighter models can do well if aided by a few gimmicks. Special bracing inside the. door can improve the thunk, but technicians do not know just how or why. "There's a lot of black magic in this thing," says John Adamson, an American Motors' vice president...
There is, of course, only one thing to do. Papa forsakes his multimillion dollar business and drives Pascal out to their country place-a little smaller than Versailles, but more cozy-where the child can perish in serenity. Papa assures the faithful family retainer (Bourvil) that Pascal must never know his fate, but the little rascal eavesdrops on the conversation and announces that he has known all along anyway. Everyone sheds a tear as Pascal manfully prepares to meet his fate. "I've never seen anything like that Pascal for guts," reflects the family retainer. "Well," comments Papa...
Just after bearing her husband Malcolm a second child, Jane takes as lover her cousin's husband James. Malcolm is a successful musician. James is an unsuccessful garage owner and sportscar buff. But James, with his potency-symbol Maserati, can do one thing Malcolm never could: give Jane sexual satisfaction. (The problem of the modern girl who dares to is that, all too often, she is also the girl...
...said it was the same thing as letting the Patriots use Harvard Stadium, but I didn't really see that it's parallel." Feige said. The Patriots were denied use of the Stadium...