Word: commas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...masterpieces are the side-by-side stadiums for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. The structures are playful siblings, not identical twins, the forms clearly modern but vaguely ancient. What Tange has called "two huge comma shapes out of alignment" reminds us how satisfying form following function can be. Instead of the usual Rube Goldberg arena system of numbered entrances and exit ramps, the single wide mouths of the Olympic stadiums show themselves unequivocally...
...committed to every period and comma in the document, but I think the basic outline is very solid," said Faculty Council member Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies...
...mandatory testing program now four months along. Whether there are enough to spur the union now is the question. Because by week's end Ueberroth's deadline for responses expired, and he was beaten back into the dismal channels of collective bargaining. Though not cleaving to every comma in the limited testing agreement already in place, Fehr seems unlikely to sway very far from the standard principles of a free society, where ballplayers are as receptive as most workers to mass indictments and virtue detectors...
...more seriously, and perhaps more typical of the sort of casual turn of phrase that irritatingly litters Mallon's text: when remarking on a sentence from the adolescent diaries of the German psychologist, Karen Horney, Mallon writes, "One can hear the girl turning into the doctor right at the comma...
...comma was approved by the subcommittee without dissent. Determined to avoid playing into Walter Mondale's hands by emphasizing the party's punctuation problems, Lewis tried to close ranks after the vote. Said he, through a brave smile: "I like commas...