Word: brief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This walkin, environmental sculpture took 13 years to complete. It is the most ambitious of all her wooden constructions. The title suggests a brief bow in the direction of another, and earlier, image of night and silence: Giacometti's The Palace at 4 a.m., 1932-33, one of the canonical sculptures of surrealism. But Giacometti's palace was the size of a doll's house. Nevelson's work-almost 12 ft. high, 20 ft. wide, and 15 ft. deep-is actually domestic (if not palatial) in size, a place one can move into. It is both...
...sponsor of the resolution proposing the change, Joseph F. Savage Jr. '78, Quincy House CHUL representative, said last Sunday the added service would avoid the crowding at hot breakfast Houses that might result from more students eating breakfast during the brief period immediately before their exams...
...film's bookends has a way of throwing the rest of the narrative into relief, but any movie that features as original a piece of technology as HAL the computer has a lot going for it in the first place, so make those trips to the concession stand brief. The final 20 minutes are positively overwhelming as Kubrick hurls his wayward astronaut through a time warp that makes the color patterns of a kaleidoscope pale by comparison. One warning: don't wast too much time trying to figure out the significance of the monolith and some of the more obscure...
...keep my beefs brief. First, Baggott is on the first team, where he belongs, but that's where the smart moves...
Cronkite has no plans to extend his brief but successful career in international mediation. "I don't think a journalist should become involved in high-level diplomacy," he says, "but it is a journalist's duty to pursue these diplomatic pronouncements. I wasn't trying to get this meeting started. My official attitude is I couldn't care less about it, though I can't help believing it will be important and helpful. Maybe we [at CBS] were catalysts. But then, maybe they would have gotten together without...