Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though Delay is not bashful about his agenda, the actual tactics may be more subtle, according to Don Fowler, the soft-spoken national chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "You're a lobbyist," he says. "So you call up a subcommittee chairman and ask for an appointment. They take your name and number, but the congressman's assistant tells you to call back a day later. And when you do, they tell you that you haven't been doing your part...
...merely because it "was there." Mark Rothko hated diagonals, but loved Hopper's. Richard Diebenkorn loved diagonals and loved Hopper's too. As well anyone might: the diagonal, the slanting patch (especially of light) becomes a wonderfully expressive element in Hopper, acting both as a structural brace for the actual painted surface and as a sign of fugitive reality in imagined space. In Morning Sun, 1952, you are acutely aware that Jo, the long-limbed, middle-aged woman staring at nothing in particular from her bed, will move in a moment, that the patch of light will move too, that...
Heather Beck, 23, earns $1,200 a month at a machine shop in Spokane, Washington. She is the only employee left following layoffs last month. Heather handles everything from typing and filing to the actual machine work. Her rent and day-care costs alone total $1,000. Last month, she reports with great pain and embarrassment, she had to borrow $200 to pay her landlord. "It just about killed me to do it,'' recalls Beck. "I don't even know how I'm going to repay...
...stolen bases, 77 runs batted in and a .345 batting average in 162 games over the past two seasons. Reliever Mesa has taken on the role of Wild Thing, with 17 saves this year in as many opportunities. And while there is no match for Serrano, there is an actual Jobu. A Mr. Potato Head-like figure with grass growing out of his head, he watches batting practice from a post near the dugout...
People working on the two Harvard building projects taught the students lessons in drawing and planning, and students toured the actual construction sites to study their lessons...