Word: account
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patch of color must have a bounding edge, and Frankenthaler's edges tend to wobble; they are overcomplicated; in some paintings, like Flood, 1967, they just go limp. She is undistinguished as a drafter -- in fact, some of her mature style is an evasion of drawing -- and this helps account for the pulpy side of her lyricism...
Fortune had eluded Layne Heath. His brick business in Fort Worth had gone belly up. He had tried construction work and humping freight on loading docks, but without graduating far beyond the minimum wage. So to nurse his bank account and a romantic ambition, Heath pulled out his typewriter and tapped out a novel based on his days as a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam. In March William Morrow and Avon Books paid Heath $300,000 for his novel, CW2 (after his former military rank, chief warrant officer, second grade). "Beats the brick business," says Heath. "But then, anything beats...
SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie...
...year also saw two important challenges to the administration from members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) as well, revolving around the central administration's refusal to take the Faculty's views into account...
...despite her conservative approach, Hope's appointment seemed to indicate that the Corporation was at least willing to take into account calls for diversity...