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Word: liquidation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purge you would have a clipped but radiant discourse of pure hue, fixed by an exaggerated pictorial flatness, done in thinned translucent washes that became the surface. Louis' direct inspiration for this was an early canvas by Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952, whose liquid blotches and airy sense of light struck him, in one of the few quotable phrases he left behind, as a "bridge between Pollock and what was possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Look At a Beautiful Impasse | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...word comes from the Latin for slimy liquid, stench, poison -- and the connotation is appropriate, not only for the AIDS virus but for the untold number of other varieties that have been preying on animals and plants since long before Homo sapiens appeared on earth. Indeed, the current AIDS epidemic is a grim reminder that these infinitesimal, bizarre creatures may be mankind's deadliest enemy. And scientists are warning that a perennial viral threat, the upcoming flu season, could be far more dangerous than usual -- more evidence that these tiny foes are responsible for a large share of human suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: AIDS Research Spurs New Interest in Some Ancient Enemies | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...live opera and a film and scheduled for a Berlin premiere in 1988. Glass and Wilson joined forces on Einstein, the work that marked the avant-garde's uptown coming-out party at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1976, and earlier this year Glass released the album Songs from Liquid Days, which featured lyrics by Byrne, Anderson, Paul Simon and Suzanne Vega, with performances by Linda Ronstadt and the Kronos String Quartet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North of Dallas, South of Houston | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

Both stores charge $4.39 for Smith-Corona typwriter ribbons, but Store 24 charges 30 cents less for "Liquid Paper" than Christy's does...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Flooding the Late-Night Munchie Market | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Both stores charge $4.39 for Smith-Corona typwriter ribbons, but Store 24 charges 30 cents less for "Liquid Paper" than Christy's does...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Flooding the Late-Night Munchie Market | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

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