Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost any measure, the last decade for the Massachusetts Republican Party has began disaster. To wit...
...used as a populist club to pulverize the old elitist verities: grace, wit, precision, proportion, coherence. No walking of the fine narrative line for the apostles of anarchy, whose police-siren song goes like this: Wake up, pal! Get out of your fusty drawing room and hit the streets! The Aristotelian unities are dead! Modern life is chaos, and this time around, art is life set to a whomping backbeat that never lets up. When society has fallen apart, don't pick up the pieces, just admire them where they fall...
...brought wit, intelligence and self-effacing humor to auto advertising, up to then dour and staid. One featured the line "Think small," which was heresy in the days when Detroit was building gigantic gas guzzlers. Another showed a VW partially submerged in water, and proud owners began to brag, "It floats." In 1969, in celebration of the first U.S. manned moon landing, VW ran a picture of the lunar-excursion module with the caption: "It's ugly, but it gets you there...
...What was once the driest state in the union after Nevada is fast becoming a water wasteland: tens of millions of dollars' worth of property has been destroyed, wildlife has diminished catastrophically, and tourism around the lake has bottomed out. Says Utah Governor Scott Matheson, with tragicomic wit: "It's a helluva way to run a desert...
...analytic intelligence, the wryness and ironic wit with which 28 of them recount their experiences there make their story all the more persuasive...