Word: chalk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Biospherians, they insist that there is nothing fraudulent about their enterprise and chalk up many of the objections to misunderstandings between "hard" scientists and those in the softer field of environmental research. Ecosystems cannot be strictly controlled as can experiments in a lab, observes Kathleen Dyhr, the project's director of communications. "The charges are those every ecosystem ecologist has to face all the time from laboratory scientists...
...Chalk up another Crimson scoop: discovering posters that no one noticed--as they did not exist. Such an expenditure had, in fact, been proposed, but I successfully introduced an amendment that would save the $275 for uses that would better serve students, and the posters were never printed...
...implications for society are as plain as chalk marks on a blackboard: the relatively high cost of the original program -- $5,000 a year for each preschooler -- was actually a bargain. The results at Ypsilanti are echoing louder across the country, not only in facilities for the underprivileged but also in preschools everywhere. Twenty-seven states now fund prekindergarten facilities -- a huge jump from only seven in 1979. And the early-childhood boom goes on unabated. Some 1,700 nationally accredited public programs operate in the U.S.; an additional 4,300 are actively seeking accreditation...
...surprising, despicable -- not a bad thumbnail note for Ernst's own art, especially as seen by others. We have reason to thank the large soft pencil of the man with the mustache. Ernst was not a great formal artist, not by a very long chalk. But in the 1920s and '30s especially, he was a brilliant maker of images. Their strength and edginess radiate like new in the centenary Ernst exhibit, organized by art historian Werner Spies, which is at London's Tate Gallery this month and moves in mid-May to Stuttgart's Staatsgalerie. Long after the art movements...
Night Ride Home follows Mitchell's 1988 Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm and comes on the heels, or paws, of her 1985 Dog Eat Dog, an intensely inward effort full of dank social speculation whose lack of wide acceptance is still a bit irksome to the singer-composer. "It was mistimed," she speculates. "It was viewed as negative and preacherly at the time of its release. It was an angry album." Mitchell seems heartened by the warm, early interest accorded the new record, and a little suspicious, as if she has produced something so attractive that it must...