Word: warts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here on the center shelves are the prosaic items, toothbrushes and toothpaste, utilitarian, kid-proofed bottles of aspirin, razor blades, wart-burning solutions, hemorrhoid suppositories, the banal soaps of everyday for people who use soap to get clean. You notice the preponderance of American trochees: Colgate, Ben-Gay, Right Guard, Band Aids, Q-TIPS...
...named than Chuck Close. Since the late '60s, when his paintings of giant heads began to make him a reputation in New York City, Close has been known for one thing: a relentless inspection of the surface of the human face, recorded at immensely magnified scale, not only "warts and all" but with every pore of every wart meticulously set forth. Large and legible though they are, Close's portraits illustrate a paradox: although faces are the most recognizable and memorable objects in the world, neither artists nor perceptual psychologists yet know for sure why we recognize them...
...apparent inequality is offset by the fact that there are fewer women here than men, and thus a woman has the chance to get more prize money than a man. Still, Steiner sees a "symbolic" inequality wherever sexual distinctions are made, and these restricted prizes amount to a "wart" on the face of this equitable situation...
President Gerald Ford, 62. After annual physical examination at Bethesda Naval Hospital, is described as having the well-being of a "conditioned athlete." After skiing, suffers occasional swelling in knees from past football injuries. Last December small wart (benign) removed from left eyelid. Has had hemorrhoidal surgery in the past...
...from our 17th century Puritan forebears. We continue to believe in the efficacy of witch hunts of grandiose proportions for excising the evil from among us. They may provide a needed catharsis, may even have a mild deterrent effect; but when will we learn that evil is not a wart on the body politic, but a cancer endemic in the human soul...