Word: zips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goodman describes herself as "a 38-year-old woman, mother, vegetable gardener, failed jogger and expert on only one subject: the ambivalence of life." Her extended family shares "not only an area code but also a zip code" near her native Boston, and rarely does a week go by when she doesn't see some relation or other. Divorced and the mother of an eleven-year-old daughter, she is at her most eloquent when tackling subjects close to home. "The pleasure of being a parent," she wrote last year, "is the extraordinary experience of having short people...
...actually having an affair with her husband's sister--is discussing with his good-hearted grandfather where to spend the holidays. The grandfather is a doctor. Everybody on soaps is a doctor. And every single room has tacky Christmas decorations, not-so-subliminal advertising to move those new zip-up Totes (from the last commercial) right off the shelves...
...notes on the history of abstract expressionism, which sharply contradict some idées reçues of the official version, are largely borne out by the evidence of his paintings. We see, for instance, how Barnett Newman's much praised early work, with its vertical "zip" down the canvas, was no more than a derivative rehearsal of certain canvases of Still's from...
...John learned the Multiflex, showed mobility, and had surprising zip on his passes in the 26-7 victory over Columbia. As Restic said yesterday, "We had been very pleased with Burke's work. He was improving all the time...
Detlef Hohl of West Germany, who in a letter to TIME [May 28] decried U.S. oil consumption, must not be among those Germans who zip along the speed-unlimited autobahns at 180 km an hour, or among those who are purchasing full-size American cars at an unprecedented rate...