Word: laid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vase, 1924. The structure of the painting is as lucid as a theorem, with its pattern of rectangular hangings, panels and tabletop and the surging diagonal of the flowers in the vase, but the color -- pinks, carmines, chromes, lilacs and an orange that glows like a red-hot cannonball laid casually on the table -- would be disorienting if the strict harmony Matisse somehow imposed on it did not persuade you that it is real...
...equally adept at prying open a wild croc or a can of Foster's. But ask Paul Hogan how he feels about the success of his first film, "Crocodile" Dundee, and he's likely to sound like the laid-back grandpa he is rather than the hottest actor to come up from Down Under since Mel Gibson got his driver's license. "We're doing real well," deadpans the self-described former pub lout. "And I'm feelin' real well." Bet you are, mate. The story of a crocodile poacher who trades the dangers of the Australian Outback...
...have been following me around California, trying to get me to come home"). The River, however, begins with much darker currents, a memory of how "me and my Dad used to go at it all the time, over almost anything." He recalls how his father waited until Springsteen was laid up in bed after a motorcycle accident, then brought in someone to cut his son's long hair. Bruce said he would never forget it. His father said he couldn't wait until the Army got him. Later, the singer remembers, he came home after failing his draft physical...
Keith Grant knows that from painful experience. A Chicago steelworker, Grant was laid off from his $30,000-a-year job two years ago, on the day before he and his wife planned to close the purchase of their first house. That dream is postponed now. Grant, 28, earns only $13,000 as a maintenance worker at a Holiday Inn; his wife Pamela stays home and cares for their three children and stuffs envelopes to earn household money. But Grant is looking for a higher-paying job as an electrician. Says he: "I've been brought up in the middle...
Faculty Council member Jeffrey Wolcowitz saidthe rules to which students are held are laid outin the student handbook...