Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museum -- he decided to sell it through Sotheby's, which cautiously predicted a price between $20 million and $40 million and went to tell Bond the glad news. Sotheby's did not need to cast a delicate fly over Bond and strip it softly in. The fish was already halfway over the gunwale and champing eagerly at the gas tank...
...Both his innumerable theoretical essays and his few buildings (four houses in two decades) seemed pretentious and willfully opaque, caricatures of neomodernism. One Eisenman house had a column in the bedroom that precluded a bed, another a hole in the floor and a stairway that ran from the ceiling halfway down a wall. The architect used to say he would not dream of living in one of his houses ("Art and life are two different things...
Neither team was able to take the lead until Army scored halfway through the second frame. Sophomore Kevin Darby tallied amidst chaos in front of the Harvard goal, off assists from Al Brenner and Sheridan...
...fall of rocks and masonry, are done with literally colossal gusto. The whole windowless chamber seems ready, for a moment, to totter and fall on your head. No room in Italy gives you a clearer sense of the mannerist delight in bizarre illusion. If one could imagine a halfway point between Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes and the gee-whiz delights of Walt Disney, this would...
Hungary and Poland, which are eager to wed their fortunes to the prosperous economies of the West, have begun to explore bilateral trade arrangements. Budapest, in particular, nurtures hopes of eventually joining the European Community. That remains years away, but a halfway step might be membership in the European Free Trade Association, which has special tariff agreements with the European Community. Such moves would come at the expense of traditional Comecon commitments. Given the glue that binds Eastern Europe -- including everything from heavily subsidized Soviet energy supplies and raw materials to inefficient plants unable to compete in world markets...