Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...rather than resorting to a characteristic, though imprecise, YAY. There is, of course, a kind of nickname that does not stem from a desire for familiarity. Sobriquet is a more ceremonial word for nickname (sort of a nickname's given name), but it is generally used in a formal, titular sense, and not as anything one actually would call someone else. A nickname may be at once demeaning and endearing (see New Zealand's Prime Minister, "Piggy" Muldoon). But a sobriquet keeps its distance. Attila's of for example, were alternately "The Terror of the World...
From the 'looks of the committee's formal letter listing his charges--"the Bill of Particulars," Liberman calls it now--it appeared to him that the committee had already found him guilty. A few weeks later it did, formally, and Liberman was forced to leave Harvard. Shortly after, he was drafted and on his way to Vietnam...
Peter d'Errico, president of the faculty union, said yesterday the union has tentatively agreed to bring in a "facilitator" to mediate some issues in the contract talks, although the union has not agreed to formal mediation of the dispute...
...such a fixture in 1980 America that there is even a stop-go one on the market, with flashing red and green lights to indicate when it is time to take another bite. Some Fiji Islanders, according to Rudofsky, eat everyday fare with their fingers and reserve forks for formal dishes roast of human flesh...
This might not be so obtrusive if Chicago's gifts as a formal artist were less meager. In drawing and modeling, The Dinner Party is mainly cliche. Most of the shapes look clumsy, either tied down by looping dark outlines that seem as inert as Alexander Calder's late graphics, or else gussied up, in the ceramics, with colors worthy of a Taiwanese souvenir factory. In terms of taste, The Dinner Party is no better than mass devotional...