Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultural irony," the best example of it is unconscious. It takes the form of a stick of unpainted wood, three-quarters of an inch square and about four inches long, glued to an otherwise white, empty wall in the U.S. pavilion and entitled Portrait of Marcia Tucker, 1976. It was made, if that is the word, by a 34-year-old New York artist named Richard Tuttle. Here, apparently, is the end of the American cultural imperialism that has been such a topic of recent discussion in the art world: the work evaporated completely, nothing to look at, only...
...reports from these correspondents, along with those of David Wood in Boston and Mary Cronin in New York, went to Associate Editor Peter Stoler, who wrote the cover story, assisted by Reporter-Researcher Fortunata Sydnor Vanderschmidt. For Stoler, the story was the latest round in a long fight. Says he: "I got malaria from mosquitoes as an infantryman in Korea, and I have had termites as a homeowner in Tenafly...
...mind was the huge jumble of rails ripped from the tracks near Warsaw late last month by rioting Polish workers. Indeed the mass strikes protesting food price hikes that swept across Poland provided a fitting background for the uneasy, restless mood of the Communist summit. Meeting in the modern, wood-paneled conference room of the Hotel Stadt Berlin, the chiefs of Western Europe's Communist parties rose one after the other to manifest their independence from the Kremlin's 50-year-long hegemony...
...sexual encounter in a public lavatory at Paris' Orly Airport, the Sunday Telegraph, which wrongly claimed she was pregnant with Amin's baby, and the Sun, which mistakenly put her name in the caption for a nude photo. Meanwhile, Movie Stars Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood won a suit against Reveille, a British picture magazine that had claimed they were headed for a second divorce. "We are very happily married," asserted Wagner as he and the missus left court. And happily richer, as was the princess. Amounts of the judgments were not disclosed...
...westward and built their towers accordingly. As things turned out, the west won, which leaves Occidental in solitary splendor, at least temporarily. Not that it matters: the building boom in Los Angeles is not only around the new towers, but also miles away in Century City and West wood. The theory, urbanologists joke, is that no one ever wanted to go to downtown L.A., so downtown came to them...