Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN I recently requested permission to dual submit an essay, I was told by one professor that my paper for him must be twice the regularly assigned length. His reasoning, he told me, was simple: dual submission is not an excuse for a student to do any less work than his or her chosen schedule demands. If I wanted to submit one paper for two classes, I had to produce a significantly more substantial piece of work...
...that does not mean the building is easy to understand or like. Running its whole, three-city-blocks length is a permanent, jungle gym-like white steel scaffolding. The faux scaffold is inspired: it defines a long outdoor walkway, it plays tricks with perspective (Does the thing tilt up? Down? Are its beams parallel?), and its evocation of construction in progress makes the Wexner Center seem perpetually unfinished, excitingly open-ended...
...getting laughs and viewers. Modeled after MTV, the Comedy Channel will have a stable of veejay- like hosts who will provide comedy patter while introducing an array of clips: scenes from comedy movies, snippets of old TV series, excerpts from stand-up performances and other laughtoids. An occasional full-length movie will intervene, but mostly the comedy will come in quick bursts, aimed at a new generation of TV "grazers," viewers who flip around the dial with their remote control. Says HBO chief Michael Fuchs: "We're looking to make a very hot, today channel, and comedy is the place...
...Bigelow cites several practical reasons whythe system is no longer used on a largescale--particularly the length of time needed tocount votes. votes...
...structural engineer who has examined it says, "I'd never go back on that s.o.b. again. No matter how much they shore it up, there is no way to make it safe." Pier 45, the city's main fishing pier, was closed because inspectors found deep fissures running the length of the pier floor. With no alternative pier to sail from, the 150-boat commercial-fishing fleet has been idled just as the herring and Dungeness crab season was about to open. Other damage ranged from cracks in the paving of the main runway at Oakland International Airport...