Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with one exception: Yorozu Tetsugoro (1885-1927). The self-styled wild man of the Japanese expatriates ("I am a kind of walking aborigine," he proclaimed), Yorozu ran through Van Gogh and fauvism and, after returning to Japan in 1907, arrived at a frenetic mixture -- synthesis is not the right word -- of expressionism and cubism in works like Self Portrait with Red Eyes...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Gerneralities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...dubbed "Rogerama," a reference to the splashy Motorama auto shows that the company held at the Waldorf a generation ago. Said Thomas J. Peters, a management consultant and co-author of the best-selling book In Search of Excellence: "This show is pathetic in the deepest sense of the word. GM does not have a p.r. problem, it ; has a car problem." Peters and other detractors maintain that consumers have been turned off by GM's lack of innovation and its look-alike designs, which have made it hard to tell a Chevrolet Celebrity from the more expensive Buick Century...
...Leningrad, Brezhnev Square reverts to the Krasnogvardeiskaya Ploshchad (Red Guards Square). Not since Joseph Stalin's name was wiped from the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) and the country's highest mountain (now Peak of Communism) in the late 1950s has a Soviet leader been so posthumously disgraced. No word yet on whether the nuclear-powered icebreaker, the cosmonaut-training center, the military academy, the power station, the tank division and the assorted farms and factories that still carry the Brezhnev name will undergo an identity change...