Word: whims
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...order to find it everywhere--thought was relative, logic false, final truth non-existent, morality but a plague produced by the intelligence, art meaningless. Duchamp's bottle rack read "art is junk" and his urinal "art is a trick." Nothing was real or true except the individual pursuing his whim, the artist bestriding his Dada. Dada overturned any object, mocked it and displaced it as an experiment in apprehending it. Yet beneath the Dadaist irony lay a desperate protest. Dada was an act of rebellion against a world believed left in mad hands, a completely mad world. Dada...
...Lloyd is tanned by the Caribbean and tailored like a German banker, a diminutive block of energy, velvety charm and wolfish flair for business. He is also a showman, and every detail of Marlborough's presentation comes under his supervision. Nothing gets left to chance or whim. Thus when selling a Modigliani or a Picasso in Japan, Lloyd reveals it to the client in a lined box with a lid instead of hanging it framed on a wall; that is how Japanese collectors are used to packing their scrolls. "Lloyd-san," purrs his Tokyo partner Torii, "almost seems...
...final point: do Mr. Hanauer and those like him raise their voices when eleven Jews are rounded up in Baghdad and hung, when Syrian Jews live at the mercy and whim of the state, or in concentration camps in Iraq? In the face of such tremendous external pressure, no nation has been as even-handed or as liberal in its treatment of ethnic minorities as Israel. Let us pressure those who deserve to be pressured -- the governments in Amman, Cairo, Baghdad and so on. Laurence Cohen
...fact, the changeover from a general-interest weekly to four specialized monthlies confused readers and advertisers. The transformation involved huge costs for hiring staffs, redesigning the format and staging promotion campaigns. The editorial operation was lifted from New York to San Francisco, apparently at Charney's whim, at a cost of more than $500,000. Overall, the operation consumed nearly $16 million, and last week liabilities exceeded assets by $1.5 million...
...medicine men. It is the very nature of the physician's work, that of healing and life-saving, that has made him the subject of the reverence of his patients and potential clientele. We hold in awe his abilities to preserve life at what appears to be virtual whim. He is the subject of our respect and our fear. For that which we fear most--death--we regard as in his capacity to control...