Word: flat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken a long look at Rodin, and it shows everywhere on his bronzes. The heavings and incrustations of their skins are, in fact, exquisitely organized to carry the eye around the form and leave no dead or slick patches on the surface. Groping, malleability, squeezing, thumbing bespeak a flat-out commitment to the tactile...
...clout to dismantle the pattern of extravagant patronage and spending programs that made Louisiana seem as profligate as a Cajun on an old-time oil-patch payday. The Roemer Revolution is a drastic effort to restore solvency to a state that is, in Treasurer Mary Landrieu's words, "flat broke." In fact, it is worse than broke: it faces a deficit of $1.3 billion. Roemer proposes to reduce the state's historic dependence on oil and energy revenues. Already, the tax-shy legislature has earmarked a 1 cents sales-tax increase, and may consider changing the sacred "homestead exemption," which...
Planners say they charged a flat price for the week's activities of $695 per returning graduate, regardless of family size, because the 25th reunion is the last one that schedules activities for alumni children. They say they have charged one price per graduate, and not per person, for at least 15 years...
Carmela Cammarata's stained brown fingers have a life of their own. Nimbly stretching Honduran corojo tobacco leaves with moistened fingertips, she strips the stems with a flat, semicircular blade. Then she expertly rolls the golden leaves around bunched-up filler into fragrant cylinders that could make a cigar lover cry. Rolling cigars comes as naturally and rhythmically to her as drumming fingers on a kitchen table. "I shouldn't be working anymore," says Cammarata, who has been making cigars for 65 of her 80 years. "But I love to make cigars. In my day it was tobacco, tobacco, tobacco...
...This team just didn't quit," Restic says. "I've been down to the Yale Bowl a few times when we've just had so much enthusiasm coming down here, going through the tunnel, coming out on the field. And there's one danger--that you come out flat. I was never worried about that with this team. They were calm, cool, collected...