Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many. The business of wood stoves is booming. Coal stoves are being rediscovered. Stores selling insulation and weather stripping are doing well. Department stores are advertising insulated "snuggle bags" or "people sacks"?sleeping bags to stay awake in. Sweaters and wool chemises are actualities. Long Johns are a distinct possibility...
Both Harvard and Texas are young--Texas starts three freshmen, Harvard goes with two sophomores--but the Longhorns carry a distinct height advantage. While 6-ft. 5-in. Mark Harris will face the task of guarding UT's highly-touted freshman postman LaSalle Thompson (6-ft. 10-in. out of Cincinnati), the Longhorns will keep seven-foot freshman Steve Frederick on the bench, waiting to compound the Crimson woes...
...eras-and two distinct views of social portraiture...
...meticulous attention he gives to sonic perspective. Many made-for-TV opera films ludicrously maintain the same concert-hall acoustic whether the singer is standing in a bedchamber or a wheatfield. In Don Giovanni, when the camera zooms in on a singer's mouth, the voice becomes more distinct and louder--and you can tell simply by listening whether a singer is indoors or out. Losey's dubbing technique, too, seems more precise and less distracting than most, including Bergman's. Only one singer, Malcolm King as Masetto, suffers from the "disconnected mouth" disease endemic to filmed singers...
...about social renewal through universal creativity, supporting the Free International University, and engaging in squabbles with the Düsseldorf Academy. This, however, is less social sculpture than social packaging. Beuys is a master of the art of self-representation, the last man to become a real celebrity (as distinct from a mere famous artist) through the medium of the art world. He is the Duchamp of the engages, a position he laid formal claim to in 1964 by exhibiting a placard on West German television which read, "The silence of Marcel Duchamp is overrated." As such, he is famous...