Word: grindingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than beauty. Particularly the truth of materials. The Russian Constructivists had a term, faktura, meaning the straightforward, logical use of substances--wood, tin, steel, rope, wire--to produce expressive effects on their own material terms. Serra is and always has been fanatical about this. He doesn't paint, polish, grind or otherwise fiddle about with his metal. It rusts naturally and bears the marks of its making, the scrapes, even the claw marks of the grabs that hoisted the plates. And yet these traces, which one might think would be brutal, acquire--given the enormous scale of the pieces...
Passarella continued to grind while the rest of the team took care of its business. Blake completed his turnaround, earning his third three-set win in the four-daytournament...
...mesmerized by interactive pursuits--frequenting chat rooms and other multiuser domains, writing e-mail, surfing the Web, playing games. These can serve as a haven for workers from procrastination, boredom and feelings of isolation at work; the fantasy world they offer can be an attractive alternative to the daily grind. "It's an altered state of reality," reports Young. "It's like a drug rush." Depression, she and others believe, can be a result of--not the cause of--compulsive computer use: after someone has been parading his impressive alter ego around chat rooms or playing a power game, coming...
...rural market town in the north. Twenty-eight people were killed and 220 injured in the single worst attack in the 30 years of fighting between Protestants and Catholics. The Real I.R.A. hoped the outrage caused by the bomb would be so great that the peace process would grind to a halt. Instead, the carnage inflicted by the bomb was so indiscriminate and terrible--Catholics and Protestants, women and children, old people and teenagers were among the dead--that all parties to the conflict rushed to isolate and crush the terrorist elements...
...proceed. And the D.A. and police haven't been able to work together. This is a deadly combination, and it's created friction." He does not believe district attorney Alex Hunter will indict anyone, adding that "there have been so many conflicting interests... Somebody without an ax to grind needs to be running things...