Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worn so lightly that one may not realize how difficult were the problems he set for himself. How do you create long processional friezes of figures based on a Roman triumph, as in the Stucco Room at Palazzo Te, without monotonously repeating poses and gestures? How do you cram an imagined temple with such an excessive throng of spectators that the Circumcision of Christ looks more like a PEN dinner thrown by Gayfryd Steinberg, and yet keep the action coherent? Virtuosity was in Giulio's nature...
...Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) simply forces the computer illiterates to cram and scram. And although the Core Curriculum takes painstalking measures to help students appreciate the aesthetic of thought, it directs little effort towards the aesthetics of modern technology...
...Part of the problem was a history of older siblings and some advisors giving information to freshmen based on previous tests," says Yuriko Kuwabara, program advisor in the Core Program. "They can't cram for this anymore...
Journalism at best only approximates reality, because writers must inevitably select and compress. If they cannot cram in the whole truth, however, they can be expected to deliver the truth and nothing but -- especially between quotation marks. The very use of that punctuation signals a special claim to credibility: this is not judgment but unfiltered fact...
...exodus to the suburbs is stupid. He advocates narrower streets for cars and wider sidewalks for people. Forget exits, he says, it's time to make better doors. The revolving ones at the bottom of most office towers may save energy, but they are hopelessly inefficient at moving people. Cram as many stores as possible along the streets to bring them alive. Do away with skywalks, abolish sunken plazas and tear down walls in front of parks and playgrounds, because they all increase isolation from the city experience...