Word: dot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movements of "his brush imitating the microform of nature-the scrawling striations of a gnarled olive trunk, the "Chinese" contortions of A weathered limestone-so the drawings break down the pattern of the landscape and re-establish it in terms of a varied, but still codified system of marks: dot, dash, stroke, slash. In his best drawings sur le motif, most of which belong to his second visit to Montmajour in July 1888, one sees how this open marking evokes light, heat, air and distance with an immediacy that "tonal" drawing could not. Space lies in the merest alteration...
...computers vastly improve the existing mainframe system donated to the K-School by the Sperry Corporation two years ago. The most recent gift includes 10 dot-matrix and five letter quality printers...
Those who have not yet paid their term bills--the first portion of which was due on August 5--will discover the infamous red dot on their registration packets, a warning that they must pay the same $40 fee unless they arrive at Mem Hall with checks in hand...
Despite all those impediments to good cheer, 11th Cavalry morale is higher than the watchtowers that dot the border. Reenlistment, a key index of soldier satisfaction, is better than in recent memory: so far this year, some 400 men and women have signed on for another tour. Says Colonel Joe G. Driskill, the 11th Cavalry's commander: "For the first time, we're in a position to turn soldiers away...
...bobbing placards at Moscone Center last week proclaimed sentiments ranging from TALKS NOT TROOPS to BEDTIME FOR RONZO. But one cause whose signs usually dot Democratic gatherings seemed conspicuously absent: labor. Union backing was critical to Walter Mondale's success. But except for a march near the hall before the convention opened, labor leaders lay low in an effort to help Mondale shed his damaging image as a captive bearer of the union label. Said Mary Hatwood Futrell, president of the 1.7 million-member National Education Association: "We did not want to give the appearance of domination...