Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RULE in art exhibits, the more artists and styles crammed into a show, the less possible it is to absorb the impact of the art. The fairest way to display any artist's work would be to collect every drawing, painting, and sculpture he had done since kindergarten and arrange them in chronological order. That way you could see every angle of the artist's creativity, really get to know the man and what he is trying...
...decide on his spring planting. He could switch more of his land to durum wheat ?all of which is sold to domestic manufacturers of spaghetti and macaroni?or to sunflowers and sugar beets. But sunflowers are in oversupply, and sugar-beet processors are working overtime to absorb the 1979 harvest. Said Sinner: "Probably there's going to be some crop switching. But I figure it's a big guessing game every spring anyway...
Sporting an 0-1-1 Ivy record and a 3-3-1 mark in ECAC Division I play, the Crimson then caught a jet for the coast, there to absorb a few rays on the beach, survey the flora and fauna of the San Diego Zoo, barter in the squalor-surrounded markets of Tijuana...and lose three hockey games, very convincingly...