Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business establishment, which he calls corpocracy. Big companies, he says, are in league with big government and big unions to stifle change and progress. "With the return of the Democrats to power over both houses of Congress," he says, "you are once more suffering the outrages of that triangular alliance...
...imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves. Within the exacting articles and stipulations there was not only room to fly but also the tacit encouragement to fly, even the instructions to fly, traced delicately within the solid triangular concoction of the framers. Even 200 years after the fact, when people debate whether the Constitution is fit for so complicated and demanding a time, Americans take as granted the right to grow into themselves. They must have read it somewhere, in a fable...
ONCE UPON a time there was a game called football. Men dressed up in funny-looking knickers and leather helmets and ran around a field for 60 minutes, while college students and alumni dressed in strange-looking fur coats sat in the stands waving triangular banners and sipping brandy from pocket flasks. The game was a sporting contest between 22 men from two different colleges...
...marble carving that Henri Gaudier- Brzeska was able to complete before his death in an infantry charge, at the age of 23, in 1915. This is the Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound, 1914, and hieratic it is; the face, with its wedge of a nose, embrasure-like eyes and triangular goatee, is as powerful as a royal Assyrian portrait, possessed of an awful gravity that the outrageous phallic pun of the poet's hair fails to reduce...
...triangular set-up, with the task force, B.U. and the city all contributing to the negotiation process," said Dick Garver, assistant director for special projects at the Boston Redevelopment Authority...