Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sophisticated public is no longer shocked by the fact that he dribbled and threw paint at his monumental canvases instead of applying it with a brush. For those accustomed to the bright glow of neon, even his colors seem calm. In short, Pollock has become something that many artists dread more than being controversial: he has become an institution...
High-Voltage Drama. Coming as it does from the No. 1 man in British television, that succinct comment largely explains why it is that BBC is so consistently sprightly and compelling. No American TV executive would think such a dread thing, let alone say it. Where U.S. television programming is mostly perma-pressed, sanitized and deodorized, BBC says what it thinks, encourages controversy, and, as Sir Hugh says, does not in the least mind getting people's goats...
...treatment for cancer. The 15 years of Krebiozen controversy ended only last year. Now, in a strangely reminiscent case, the Government has asked the U.S. District Court in Cleveland to issue a permanent ban on the manufacture and interstate shipment of the latest invention against the dread disease, the "Rand cancer vaccine...
...embassy was soon surrounded by a nonstop demonstration of Chinese students and soldiers in an ugly mood. Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi sent a cable promising the students a triumphant return to Peking. The Chinese Foreign Ministry, in an elaborate attack, said: "Since we dread neither heaven nor earth, neither devils nor gods, how can we possibly dread you, a few flies freezing to death in the whirling snow?" The Chinese made so much of the incident that many observers felt that they had purposely staged it to give themselves an excuse to take further steps...
...Pinter and the Marx Brothers collaborated on a comedy, and dread and menace were laughing matters, Eh? might be the result. Dustin Hoffman is properly sinister and silly as Henry Livings' pop protagonist...