Word: gushers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Energy," wrote William Blake, "is eternal delight," and there has never been anything in American art to match the effusive, unconstrained energy of Rauschenberg's generous imagination. Compared with the more pursed, hermetic and self-reflexive Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg is and always has been a gusher. He loves the sound, smell, grunge and look of the street. He doesn't look at his sources in American vernacular--photos, movies, and junk of all kinds--with anything resembling irony or distance. He is in it up to the neck and wants...
...store for the 10-year-old in all of us. With mock thatched eves, bamboo doors and a large tree growing out of the center of the service counter, it is the children's literary treehouse of the Square. Beyond books you can find educational toys such as "Gusher! The Geyser Construction Kit"--not for use in Harvard housing...
...Canadian intelligence service who has studied the infiltration of Chinese spies into North American commerce, describes Huang's free pass as "horrendous." It is particularly disturbing, Harris says, because Lippo's shared ownership of a Hong Kong bank with the Beijing government could have opened an intelligence gusher to the People's Republic. "This failure could undermine the confidence of U.S. allies," Harris says. "Given Huang's history and background, it was unthinkable that an intelligence service wouldn't have done a foreign field check...
CRIME: A Global Gusher of Greenbacks...
...astonishing materials of war. To save a Europe that had lost virtually its entire industrial capacity to the Germans, and to carry the war to Japan, the U.S. turned on a great gusher that armed and propelled Allied forces back onto the Continent. Without that, there would have been no D-day, no march toward Berlin, no victory of any kind. "The American war-production job was probably the greatest collective achievement of all time," said Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board from 1942 to 1944. "It makes the seven wonders of the ancient world look like...