Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...King, a congenially bombastic presence whose recent show-business experience has been limited to booking prizefights, estimates that "if the boys decide to exploit every avenue of merchandising and marketing available to them?T shirts, pay-per-view TV concerts, clothing lines, perfume lines, product identification?the tour could gross $100 million...
...during the academic year, including a special issue on recent Supreme Court decisions. The Review also publishes A Uniform System of Citation, the standard legal form book. More than 75,000 copies of the book are sold annually, bringing in half of the non profit corporation's $600,000 gross revenues...
...general, economists think that the budget deficit in a healthy economy should amount to no more than 2% of the gross national product...
...this case, the foreground counts most. It is a simplification, but not a gross one, to say that Morley and the late Philip Guston were the twin unlatchers of "new figuration," at least in America. Morley was an expressionist artist when most of the current crop of neoexpressionists were still, aesthetically speaking, in diapers. His mix of mass-media cliche with intimate confession, his abrupt shifts of gear in imagery and format, and his therapeutic desire to shovel his whole life-traumas, lusts, memories, hopes-onto the canvas, struck many younger painters as a fresh model of artistic character...
...deal with them at all. Like this country's president, most of the public seems to hope that the homeless will simply go away, taking their plight with them. At the pizza place in Berkeley, the student clientele greeted the crowd around the trashcan with derisive yells of "Eeeeeuw, gross," and the employees often threw sawdust on the pizza before disposing of it--as if the crowd was trying to save money by waiting for the food to come out for free. But the same employees probably laugh at presidential advisor Edwin Meese's suggestion that people sleep in shelters...