Word: heights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tennis court, Arthur Ashe calls it the "zone." Jimmy Connors says the / ball grows to the size of a watermelon. By myriad accounts, the streaker's game, whatever the game, seems to be played in slow motion. Wayne Gretzky speaks of hockey that way. At the height of his batting powers, Ted Williams claimed he was able to read the spinning labels on 78-r.p.m. recordings. Pete Rose could count the stitches on a curving baseball. To Race Driver Jackie Stewart, nothing in the world seemed as serenely slow as a car responding well at 200 m.p.h...
...control unit, the results of these calculations can be displayed as marks on paper or as blips on a computer screen. The bottom shows up as a continuous line. Fish may appear as "arches," or inverted Vs, in which the depth of the arch corresponds roughly to the height of the fish. Some of the newest units can zoom on a target zone, allowing users to pick out a fish hovering a mere 1 1/2 in. off the bottom. Other refinements include alarms that signal a fish's presence and multihued video screens that are designed to identify various species...
When Fischl started out, the odds were against the very idea of narrative painting based on the human figure. Born in New York City in 1948, he went to the California Institute for the Arts in Valencia in 1970, just at the height of the belief, then endemic in the American art world, that "painting is dead." Cal Arts epitomized the frivolity of late-modernist art instruction -- no drawing, just do your own thing and let Teacher get on with his. Art education that has repealed its own standards can destroy a tradition by not teaching its skills, and that...
Nonetheless, even at the height of the anti-union campaign, the union was winning backers, not losing them, according to HUCTW leader Kris Rondeau...
Historically, retreats into the occult and the mystic have often been correlated with times of social stress, such as during the height of the Dark Ages, and I fear this is one more sign of a "malaise" we have been trying to deny. The casual acceptance of ignorant superstition at the highest political level speaks of an intellectual retreat, for which the Reagan Administration has often been criticized. We have seen the emergence of a blind faith that "it"--the debt, the decaying environment, the nuclear menance, the drug trade--will all work out somehow, as if by magic; perhaps...