Word: clingingly
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...thing as a luxury rental building?only middle-income buildings at luxury prices." Most low-rent housing developments, says Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League, rapidly turn into "vertical slums." As for planning, while many cities like Philadelphia and Boston have become showplaces, most of them cling to the old pattern of dull city blocks, where even the prestige corporate structures determinedly ignore their neighbors...
...particular artistic movement. The Farm, finished in 1922 and bought soon afterward by Novelist Ernest Hemingway for $200 in Paris, is one of Miró's earliest efforts to distill the essence of Spain and the way in which its savage, whimsical, passionate people still cling close to the earth. The scene depicts the farm bought by his father, a Barcelona goldsmith, at Montroig, a coastal village in Catalonia. For all its literalness, the painting is anything but realistic. By its microscopic stylization, it turns each detail, including the lizard and snail in the foreground, into a symbol...
...British industry is riddled with inefficiency. U.S. factories are rated at 100, said the study, British factories rate only 66 -behind plants in Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, West Germany and France. British executives, said the Brookings report, often "lack breadth as well as technical training," while unions cling to restrictive practices and refuse to tame wild cat strikes...
...ripples across the roughest terrain like a huge, double-jointed caterpillar. It can cling to 60° slopes, climb over boulders and fallen timber, push its way through water, mud or snow. On less rigorous straightaways, it can whip along at speeds of up to 65 m.p.h. Built by Lockheed engineers as a high-performance, wheel-driven answer to the tank, the curious transport is fittingly called the Twister...
...academic matters, student critiques of their professors are becoming commonplace. Since most professors cling to the shibboleth that letting a colleague observe their teaching would be an invasion of "academic freedom," student opinions ought to be incorporated into promotion procedures if good teaching is ever to get its just rewards. As it is now, teaching is judged mainly by grapevine gossip. "I have no idea how well my associates teach-I've never seen them," concedes Chicago Humanities Professor Herman Sinaiko. A large university simply could not function, however, if professors were subject to the total-and predictably whimsical...