Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hesse called Hangup "the most ridiculous structure I ever made, and that is why it is really good. It has a kind of depth of soul of absurdity." The form of her later pieces-ragged sheets of latex, irregular fiber-glass cylinders strewn at random on the floor, tangled webs of rubbery cord hanging from the ceiling like a three-dimensional version of Pollock drips-is partly an effort to give sculpture the fluidity of abstract-expressionist painting and partly a direct celebration of incongruity. Decoration, she believed, was "the only art sin." It was not a peccadillo she ever...
...revision of the rules, the Ministry of National Education has announced a broad program of reform to start next fall. The old dictées will give way to exercises designed to help a student's development. No longer will pupils be compelled to memorize long lists of irregular verbs, or to suffer punitive homework consisting of copying conjugations a hundred times over. Indeed the ministry described the traditional teaching of grammar as a "plague." Instead, children will be encouraged to talk and act freely in class. Even the scratchy pens with which French children learned to write...
Hard Times said Liacos had failed to investigate possible police misconduct during the state medical examiner's autopsy on Largey's body and what the group termed "the highly irregular procedure of the first autopsy and the hurried embedding...
Before the redistricting, a map of the 9th District looked like a long, irregular polygon. Now it doesn't look like much of anything except a classic case of gerrymandering. The "new 9th" is an irrational district which combines urban with suburban problems and wealthy property towners with poverty line constituents...
...contrast, Hicks's re-election campaign has been a bit harder to find. She has no official campaign headquarters, but merely a series of neighborhood storefronts which are only open at irregular hours. Callers to her Congressional District office at the Federal Building who ask about the campaign are instructed to leave their names and told a campaign official will call back. No, they can't give out the names of any officials, nor say where they can be reached. I called two weeks ago, and am still waiting for the return call...