Word: label
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nature, but their monastic image is imposed on by outsiders and the everyday world as much as it is created by the astronomers themselves. The scientific community, too, keeps its distance, regarding astronomy as a rather old-fashioned and superstitious discipline. Professionals these days call the field "astrophysics"--a label which may bring them closer to other scientists, but alienates them still more from the average person. The problems astrophysicians deal with often seem, to the common eye, ascetically dry, scholastically obscure, and maybe irreverent...
...first five primaries seems to confirm the liberals' plight. All but one of their candidates have dropped out. The survivor around whom they are gathering, Morris Udall, still has not won a primary. Even Udall has poured salt on their wounds: he has taken to dropping their label. Udall prefers to call himself a progressive, a description he says sounds less negative...
...book dwells on the somewhat odd dining and drinking habits in the White House. It reports that Nixon preferred a 1966 Chateau Margaux wine with dinner. On the yacht Sequoia, he instructed stewards to serve him this $30 wine, wrapped in a towel to obscure the label, while his guests got a $6 vintage. Ron Ziegler, Nixon's beleaguered press aide, had special drinking habits too: he would not take his White House cocktails unless the glass bore the presidential emblem. He even wanted his coffee served in a cream-colored Lenox china cup and saucer bearing the presidential...
...critic looked round the Paris Salon d'Automne, which contained an Italianate bust surrounded by the paintings of Henri Matisse and his disciples, he made a wisecrack about "Donatella chez les fauves" (Donatello among the wild beasts), thus giving a short-lived movement a very durable and misleading label. Fauvism was worked out by a small group of artists over a span of three years; it was dead by 1907. It could coarsely be defined as what Matisse and France's Midi region did to half a dozen painters: to Maurice de Vlaminck and André Derain...
...collection, I think of everybody." Not for every body, obviously, is his black satin "Savage" swimsuit (see cover), a spectacular $60 loincloth that at least four other designers claim to have brought out before Halston. In 1973, the Norton Simon conglomerate bought the Halston label for about $12 million; Halston Enterprises, which includes more than a dozen franchising businesses, did $90 million retail last year...