Word: lid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shows were much sought after: the master of this taxing form was the Dutch artist Samuel van Hoogstraeten, who around 1655 constructed a perspectyfkas, or perspective cabinet, a whole miniature Dutch interior to be viewed through eyeholes. So complete is the illusion that one cannot guess, without taking the lid off the box, that these stable objects- the chair, the dog, the tile floor - that seem to have the clearness and density of the real world are painted flat, a jumble of skewed angles involuntarily assembled...
...secretaries lounged around, jingling the keys on their belt loops and shooting the bull. After joining state and federal police in what amounted to a war-time-like occupation of the troubled schools and streets last fall, they now have orders to keep a low profile, to "keep the lid on," from Robert J. DiGrazia, Boston's respected, reform-minded and very high profile police commissioner...
...secretaries lounged around, jingling the keys on their belt loops and shooting the bull. After joining state and federal police in what amounted to a war-time-like occupation of the troubled schools and streets last fall, they now have orders to keep a low profile, to "keep the lid on," from Robert J. DiGrazia, Boston's respected, refrom-minded and very high profile police commissioner...
...five limbs up on a ponderosa pine and later that night watched the flood in a series of flickering still lifes illuminated by lightning. "I saw poor Mrs. Greeley-84, she is-go down the river. And I could hear the cabins around us go. They sounded like the lid of a wooden apple box being pried...
...effort to put a lid on the pay-price spiral, Economy Minister Emilio