Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police barriers, sea tar, a stuffed bird, a broken umbrella, a shaving mirror, grimy postcards. These relics were sorted out in his studio, glued to surfaces, punctuated with slathers of paint. They emerged as large-scale collages, to which Rauschenberg gave the name combines. At first they were relatively flat. Collection was almost an orthodox collage: layers of souvenir-like junk half-effaced by swaths and spatters of bright red paint. (Rauschenberg liked color to have the same "given" quality as a found object; discovering some unlabeled cans of house paint on sale for 50 each, he opened them...
...price war began in late October when J. August started charging a flat rate of two cents a copy, underselling Gnomon's price of three cents for the first ten copies of an order and two cents a copy thereafter...
...Harvard team, which earned its slot in yesterday's race by sweeping last Monday's IC4As in New York, ran extremely well. Despite the white-hot pace and the unusually long and flat 10,000 meter course, most of the Crimson finishes were strong...
...basket," says Hillier, who had tried every imaginable weight reduction gimmick, including amphetamines, without success. That was only five months ago. Now the 6 ft. 4 in. Hillier is down to a trim 200 lbs., feels so good he wants to start skiing and, patting his new flat stomach, boasts: "I have the libido of a teen-ager...
...majority of distress signals have come from drivers with flat tires, empty gas tanks, and other auto trouble. Some 10% of the requests are for police assistance; in Massachusetts, for example, police answered a call from a woman who had jumped out of a car after her husband began beating...