Word: dropoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Merritt Parkway pictures the intersections in a way to give a highway com missioner a nervous breakdown, but the sense of speed, flashing chrome and areas of green peripherally seen, are all there. Palisade, with its sudden dropoff into a blue void, recalls De Kooning's own sense of vertigo when he looked down from cliffside Palisades Park to the Hudson below...
Berman said that the lawyer must become an expert in every field that has a bearing on his case, and noted that in the McKeon case, he had to study hydrography to defend his position that panic caused the death of the six recruits rather than any sudden dropoff or deep place in the boondocks at Parris Island...
...crisis, printers and reporters drove their own cars to the plant, loaded up with papers and carried them to dropoff points around Brooklyn. But there the bundles languished on the sidewalks; union members working for distributors would not handle them. Co-Publishers Albert and Sidney Klass, the brothers who started their paper as a weekly 18 years ago, asked for an injunction against the boycott so they could get on with their plan of boosting the Daily's circulation from 25,000 to an initial borough-wide...