Word: lump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only it isn't the newcomers who are suffering most. Hundreds of low-salaried Israelis, many of them young army veterans, have been turned out of their homes in favor of newcomers who are given a lump-sum payment of $11,000 for rent and other expenses. Landlords, realizing new immigrants have the cash, double and triple prices and require a full year's payment in advance. Poor Israeli families can not compete. "The landlords prefer the Soviet immigrants," says Yossi Hurja, 27, who was forced to move when his rent was raised from $350 to $420 a month...
...Harvard Film Archive is in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, on Quincy Street. The Carpenter Center is a semi-spiral lump of concrete, and is one of the few North American examples of work by the renowned architect Le Corbusier. It's ugly, but people will still think you're uncultured if you criticize it, simply because it's famous...
...capsulize things that people can absorb. The fact is, Drexel became the major source of capital for industrial companies in the country. Even our worst enemies think only a handful of people did anything wrong, so it's unfair to the vast majority of people at Drexel to lump them into a two-word tag line. The damage that's been done is absolutely unjustified. We grew quickly and we stepped on toes. But we did no more than other investment banks did when they hit periods of unusual competitive advantage...
...great achievement among his series was the Grainstacks of 1890-91. Monet painted at least 25 of them, and they seem almost polemical because their subject looks so odd and raw. What are these things? Anonymous structures of oats and wheat, circular, with conical tops. They look like primitive lumps, soft rocks. Why paint a lump? Partly, no doubt, because the grainstacks implied abundance, the nurturing power of deep France. But mainly because, in their very simplicity, they were a superb matrix for the changing effects of light and color. Sometimes Monet's grainstacks glow like furnaces, their shadow lines...