Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though the formal ruling to "continue" the case for six months did not carry a judgement as to Chamberlain's gulit or innocence. Murphy said that the student admitted sufficient fact to warrant a finding of guilty...
Even when a part number on invoices correctly identifies the material in a crate as a banned military item, Customs agents have no easy way of knowing it. The Treasury Department does not have a formal arrangement with the Defense Department to verify that the parts numbers are on lists of contraband items. Says a Customs agent in Washington: "Usually, I call a friend at the Pentagon and ask him to look up the numbers for me as a favor...
There are big, formal, commercial networks that sell everything from financial news to legal data to their subscribers, but Brand plans to concentrate on the smaller systems, many of them patched together by computer fanatics. The most notable of these mininetworks, and a prime source of informed opinions about software, is an international collection of more than 1,200 users called EIES, for Electronic Information Exchange System. Operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, EIES has counted among its membership Author Alvin Toffler and former Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson. Brand will tap the expertise of EIES and invite...
This recipe could hardly be less like the ideal clarity and openness of traditional American abstract painting. It sounds like a terrible mess, but it does not cook out that way, for two reasons. The first is the strength of Alexander's imagery; the second, his formal control. Since most neoexpressionist painting is given to conventional signs for intensity but lacks formal rigor (a gut pile without shape), Alexander's work repays inspection...
...paintings is a tendency to caricature rather than draw every shape right through. There are too many bug eyes, cartoony ears and fragmentary evocations of Felix the Cat. But at the same time, Alexander's torrent of images corresponds to a real need, which, on the whole, his formal system can handle. But when his indignation is at full blast-as in The Art King, a mordant quotation from Bosch, showing a startled windbag of a culture hero being devoured, crown and all, by a leopard-he is plainly an original, though not necessarily a pleasant...