Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard has used Bryant's skills to build itself a library system that looks to the future while not forgetting its past. The University has demanded a lot from Bryant but he'll argue forever that he's gotten back his investment. There is never a word that even faintly suggests ego. "If I ever got that modest," a colleague says, "people wouldn't know...
...suspend our disbelief. Really suspend it. Until we're yanked in. "'Twas Beauty killed the Beast," says Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) at the end of the movie, and the purity of this epitaph is convincing. King Kong is distillation of mythic adventures, and it helped Hollywood define the word, "Entertainment...
...time declared to be the prime subject of sculpture, but by means traditional to painting: the flat surface, the boundary line. Since tin sheets do not ask to be stroked, as stone or bronze does, the Guitar was wholly visual sculpture, another mark of the new sensibility. If the word revolutionary still means anything in art, this was a revolutionary work. At one stroke it changed the history of its own medium...
Either way, anybody in the business of pleasing a mass audience-which used to be a simple game of playing hunches but is now codified, computerized and constantly tested by market research-can only by stretching the word be considered powerful. A powerful king could do as he damned well pleased; in France, the capricious Louis XIV has been succeeded by the democratic Giscard d'Estaing, who is allowed only to be crotchety. Networks and newspaper chains are far larger than what William Randolph Hearst ruled, but Hearst was a real press lord and his successors are not. Without...
...Chafee (H) 1:51.6; 2. McNulty (H) 1:55.6; 3. Word...