Word: grid
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Compared with that of Picasso or Braque, the inventors of cubism, Gris' work does seem programmed and synthesized: in its fondness for the grid and the deliberate repetition, it is a long way from the flickering mutability, the twisting disintegration of objects in newly imagined space, that gave early cubism its wildly adventurous look. Gris was a Madrileño-which was to say, a provincial, brought up in a far stodgier cultural milieu than Picasso the Catalan-and his work does not even look particularly "Spanish": no craziness, no tragedy, no genitals, no folklore...
Both schools have strong football traditions and a famous grid alum from the late 1960s. For Cornell it was running back Ed Marinaro, second in the Heisman Trophy balloting in 1971. For UMass it was Greg Landry (this week's guest predictor), who quarter backed the Baltimore Colts and the Detroit Lions in the NFL before moving to his current position with the USFL's Chicago Blitz...
...rate and unemployment at a punishing 17%, Spain is by no means without difficulties. But at every turn, González has made it clear that he does not intend to impose rash solutions. For example, he has not considered nationalizing anything more than the country's electric grid system. Nor has he been tempted to push for an expansionary economic policy along the lines of the French Socialists during their first year in power...
...time "scoring," that is translating the scribbling on the one third to one-half mile of paper generated in a night's monitoring into readable numbers. Each 20-second unit is assigned a number corresponding to the depth of the sleep during the period, and then marked on a grid. Those numbers can be led into a computer to aid the diagnosis of the disorder. The strips of paper are used so that both sides are written on, and they are microfilmed and thrown away. The microfilm is kept, however, because there may be recurrences of disorders...
Researchers at West Germany's Mannheim University have applied modern technology to detect minute variations in pressure applied to paper by writers. They are developing an electric grid microscope to measure precisely...