Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus reminded, Murtagh asked Saul J. Allen, director of the city's Traffic Summons Control Bureau, just how Big Joe was doing. In reply, Allen produced Exhibit A, a series of postcards from Big Joe, all addressed to "Dear Saul." They read: ¶ "December 12. I'm here in Kansas City, Mo. No gypsies here." ¶ "December 15. Omaha. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Not many gypsies here. Leaving for South. Perhaps do better there...
...engineers, the redundancy theory suggests a new way to approach the criticism of art forms. Professor Cunningham believes, for instance, that landscape paintings exhibit the same high redundancy that television pictures do. Williams College Art Professor S. Lane Faison Jr. cautioned, however, that the very best art exhibited the least redundancy, e.g., the paintings of French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne, who evolved a style that was a. kind of shorthand. In Cézanne's paintings, said Faison, "whole areas of information" were eliminated: "tables, fruit . . . where the light came from, what time...
...lengthy form document (36 pages) begins with an agreement to forgive past injuries, and covers a long list of subjects, including the right to privacy ("In such matters as personal mail"), in-laws, sex, late hours, gambling, grudges, bringing home the paycheck ("The parties agree to preserve and exhibit to one another all pay stubs representing any earnings earned by them"), charge accounts and the silent or doghouse treatment. Each unhappy husband and wife are invited to sign the contract, agreeing to all the pertinent parts. The key clause: parties who sign place themselves voluntarily under the jurisdiction...
...general complaint: Rojas' increasingly harsh measures, e.g., closing down the respected Bogotá daily El Tiempo last August, are turning Colombia into an out-and-out military dictatorship, and costing the government heavily in prestige. Rojas' answer, made in an impromptu speech at the opening of an exhibit of public works: "I ask myself how the government can be losing prestige? Formerly Liberal governments persecuted Conservatives and many Conservative authorities persecuted Liberals, while today every Colombian knows-morning, noon and night-that the armed forces vigilantly guard his life, his honor and his property." Critics of this state...
...health is good; the cost of living has remained stable for a year, and the country's major crop, coffee, selling at a satisfactory 62? a lb., should bring in a fat $500 million this year. Rojas' public works, depicted in pictures, maps and models at the exhibit he opened last week, are impressive: pipelines, airports, irrigation projects, and badly needed roads...