Word: diving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...William Baziotes, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Clyfford Still--saw the socially grounded activist art of the 1930s, whether Nativist like the Regionalism of Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton or left-wing Social Realist, as provincial, shallow and irrelevant. "Poor art for poor people," sniffed Gorky. They wanted to dive deeper. They valued the primordial, the spiritual, the primitive and the archetypal as sources of inspiration...
After sophomore Peter Woodfork doubled classmate Jason Keck to third, Forst got his chance. He responded by lining a pitch from senior Steve Suhr to right-center field. The ball eluded the dive of center fielder Shaun Salmon for a two-run double...
...offered in the Core program even when they want to. The CRC says that departmental courses are too advanced for a novice in the field and that introductory courses are directed at concentrators. To the former claim, may we say that students here are not so stupid as to dive into a course for which they are ill-prepared unless they are willing to put in extra work. To the latter claim, we ask what better way is there to attain the varied approaches to knowledge than to survey a field's theoretical canon...
Frankie is a waitress, and Johnny a cook, in a dive of a diner somewhere in the Big Apple. She comes home every day to a small apartment with meat loaf and beer in the fridge, a stuffed E.T. doll on the nightstand. "I had a parakeet once," she admits. "I hated it, I was glad when it died." Frankie is a pro at cloaking loneliness in irony. She probably was glad when Tweety bought the bird-farm, but then again, she'd never tell us otherwise...
...Brazilian generals in F-16s. In March 1996 an armada of U.S. warplanes flew to Chile for an air show. As scores of Latin American officers and hundreds of civilians squinted into the sunny sky, an F-16 Falcon soared high up, then roared down in a kamikaze dive. A B-2 Stealth bomber flew over the Santiago fairground. A giant C-17 air cargo plane rumbled along the taxiway with a Chilean flag fluttering from a cockpit window. The State Department was furious with the stunts, but the air show accomplished exactly what the Pentagon had wanted. Within...