Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that, in Lichtenstein's case, the fluid -those cartoon images of teen-agers and Korean War jets-was transparent. After a while the imagery hardly got in the way at all, and Lichtenstein could be treated as a formalist much more readily than, say, Claes Oldenburg, with his gross impurities and gargantuan appetite for metaphor. A lot of Pop art owed something to surrealism. Lichtenstein's never...
...denied any improprieties and testified: "We were never extorted." By an 80-to-17 vote, the Senate confirmed his appointment. But nagging questions about the company he kept have continued to haunt Donovan. In May a federal grand jury in Brooklyn charged that Schiavone Construction was extorted by Harry Gross, a New York Teamsters Union official. According to the indictment, Gross forced Schiavone to place his chauffeur on the company payroll as a "ghost" who never showed up for work. Donovan claimed at his hearings that the arrangement was part of a collective bargaining agreement with the Teamsters. The Justice...
...Harvard Tenants Union (HTU) Monday sent President Bok the results of a survey on energy consumption and heating in University-owned apartment buildings, which it said demonstrated a "gross form of mismanagement" by Harvard Real Estate...
...because it threatens further to bloat the federal debt and aggravate inflation. As if to dramatize such fears, the nation's leading banks last week raised their prime lending rate to 20.5%, up 3½ percentage points in one month. Moreover, last week's report that the gross national product had surged 8.4% in the first quarter seemed to weaken the case for the economic stimulus that the Administration argues a tax cut would bring...
...attracted to UA because it owns a library of about 2,000 old films that can be sold to cable TV. MGM executives also want to control United Artists' worldwide distribution network, since they will now collect the distributor's 30% cut of their movies' gross ticket sales. Says Merrill Lynch Vice President Harold Vogel: "The merger means MGM will be a stronger competitor...