Word: fragmentism
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...past 40 years. Quick to correct those who call her a night owl, she describes herself as a "dawn person"; she likes to rise at 4:30 a.m. and start work, sometimes on the big constructions she is best known for, sometimes on the multitude of studies-a mere fragment of wood glued to a dark mounting sheet-that she produces in lieu of drawings and that form teetering stacks in the upstairs studios...
...Ronald Reagan had stumbled on to the end of his China press conference, a few experienced journalists gathered and wondered if they had witnessed the beginning of the end of his bid for the presidency. One such episode does not a campaign make or break; it is only a fragment of the image of a man as President, an image that the public will gradually construct out of many pieces, some deeply personal, as the campaign proceeds. Yet the China flap stands as a warning to Reagan: he is now in an arena where new disciplines of precision and perceptions...
...quot;We are really talking about peril," Kuriloff says in the living room of her Brentwood apartment. She is an intense, frail-looking, girlish woman of 39 who moves about when she speaks, dashing to the bookshelf to verify a remembered fragment of poetry, changing chairs to find one whose compass bearing on the conversation is exactly right. When she listens, she cocks her head, nods emphatically -"Yes, yes, yes!"-leans forward in sympathy, sits back in surprise and pleasure, claps her hands...
...ivory-tower hierarchy, we meet the more tractable problem of coordinating sections in large lecture courses. The ever-dwindling availability of graduate students makes it more essential than ever that departments take responsibility for training their teaching fellows, may of whom may be familiar with only a fragment of the course material...
Gulke said the discovery of the fragment and his interpretation of it created a sensation in the field of classical music because it revealed "really good music" that scholars had not been aware...