Word: fill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is slight chance that a forced commuter will get into a House; and his acquiescence to conditional admission should not be based upon any such expectation. About 300 students with House affiliations who must now live in Claverly or Wigglesworth will get preference, and they will fill up spaces in the new House...
...Matisse used to design the outline of a chair, then design the colors, and fill them in. Or he designed the color and then the chair. But one comes after the other. Moi, je fais tout d'un coup [I do everything at once]-contour, matiere, surface, color, line, all in the same stroke." Thus Paris Painter Pierre Soulages, at 37 a roaring commercial success and winner of several international art prizes, describes the effort behind his huge, bulking canvases-massive, broad strokes of dark paint laid on the light background with brush, board, strips of leather and cardboard...
...conducted the experiment say that their purpose was to study the high atmosphere by injecting artificial meteors into it and observing their behavior and the light generated by them. This explanation has its elements of truth, but the experiment demonstrated in addition how easy it would be to fill a selected patch of space with deadly, speeding particles...
...Rope Dancers (by Morton Wishengrad) is that once-or-twice-a-season sort of play that is unsuccessful but "interesting." It introduces to Broadway a playwright who is almost struttingly grim, carrying larger-sized luggage than he can fill; but who seems altogether resolved to go his own way, even if he lose his way in the process. Laid in a turn-of-the-century Manhattan tenement, The Rope Dancers is a stubbornly harsh story of a lacerated family. Hard-working Margaret Hyland is a rigid, arrogant, unappeasably bitter woman with a lazy, feckless would-be writer of a husband...
...ticket to the HDC production and get in on the fun. Fill in the last word of this title and guess the attendance figure of opening night. $5 worth of merchandise to the seven lucky winners. Enter...