Word: exact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearly what used to be called a petit-maitre. He has staked out a small and somewhat predictable area of visual sensation, a narrow range of images, ideas and colors, and worked it so thoroughly as to exclude all followers. Some memorable works have resulted. The close and beautifully exact tonal painting of a landscape like Brown Swiss (1957)-"I wanted it to be almost like the tawny brown pelt of a Brown Swiss bull," he tells Met Director Thomas Hoving in the catalogue text-is not the work of small talent; and there are few American portraits that display...
Details are not specified in the bill, which President Ford signed on October 12. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare will determine the exact numbers within the next year...
Many exasperated humorists still find that the primary also-rans offered them richer fare than the winners. Ronald Reagan captured the Texas primary, concluded Mark Russell, because he promised to extend the state's borders southward to Panama and install an exact-change lane in the canal. (Reagan's Panama hat is now worn by California Senatorial Candidate S.I. Hayakawa, who insists: "We should keep the canal. We stole it fair and square.") Chevy Chase on NBC's Saturday Night rather sickly reported that George Wallace, "aiming to set the record straight" about his physical qualifications...
Like Lassa fever, Marburg virus disease is highly infectious. Though scientists still do not know the exact mechanism, the disease can be transmitted by contact with infected blood, tissue and even semen; it may also be spread by particles in the air. No cure has yet been found, although doctors are hoping a serum can be made from blood of surviving victims who have antibodies against the virus...
...vast Campo de Mayo garrison outside Buenos Aires, was more prophetic than he realized. Just a few minutes after he finished talking, the guerrillas brought off the latest of their resounding feats: a time bomb planted in the reviewing stand blew out a yard-wide hole at the exact spot where Argentine President Jorge Rafael Videla had been standing. Because the ceremonies had ended three minutes early, Videla was by then a scant but safe 60 yds. away...