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Word: hassock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works, including last year's sculptures and beginning with early cubist-influenced paintings. One striking example is the superb Nude with a Mirror-solid as a column with those interlocking planes of pink flesh, the Khmer eyes, the thick hawser of plaited hair, and perched on a hassock whose needlepoint butterfly sums up Miró's pleasure in decorative enumeration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joan Mir | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...available to any employee, male or female,* who reserves tank time far enough in advance. President Fred Turner had the idea, after deciding that some employees might want a taste of privacy now and then. The tank has two sections: one a soundproofed workroom equipped with dimmable lights, a hassock, a beanbag chair, a desk that can be adjusted from sitting to standing height and walls, floor and ceiling covered in beige pseudo suede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rare Hamburger Headquarters | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

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