Word: lumping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...architect Louis Kahn, was the beginning of all ornament. Puryear's work accepts and celebrates this. In Thicket, 1990, his intersections run free variations on the notching, lapping and tenoning of practical carpentry in order to generate a curved form with straight balks of pine. The mysterious dark, shiny lump of Self, 1978, is one of those forms that would be banal in fiber glass or even bronze; but it is made of laminated and coopered wood, and its variations of sanding and cutting, the slight bumps and dimples of the black-painted skin, give it a peculiar organic eloquence...
...extra steps"? Please, please don't lump us together with Mather and the Quad. Last time I checked, Leverett was about a seven-minute walk from the Yard, meaning we can leave home at 10 and still be on time for our 10 o'clock classes...
Like love songs and The Wonder Years, this book should not be taken in large doses. After reading too many essays in one sitting, they tend to melt together into one lump of sappy, sentimental...well, fill in your own alliteration. The essays lose force because their cute outcomes become predictable. For example, Schnur constantly decorates this stories with "coincidental" meeting with pretty girls and over-blown adoration by neighborhood children...
Another unusual source: the unemployment office. In an adventurous experiment, the states of Massachusetts and Washington are letting the jobless use their unemployment benefits as startup capital. Instead of paying the participants the usual biweekly unemployment checks for six months, Washington State gives them one lump sum. In its Self-Employment and Enterprise Development project, 450 jobless workers since 1989 have collected lump-sum payments averaging $4,200. Among the SEED startups: a plumbing business, a money-management firm, a landscaping company and a tanning salon. Ronald Wilmoth, 43, used his $7,000 check as part of his financing...
...Massachusetts Enterprise Project, which began last year, differs slightly. Rather than issuing lump-sum payments, MEP gave participants regular unemployment checks for 24 weeks. It also offered 10 weeks of small-business instruction and financing at MEP's partner bank, Shawmut. So far, Shawmut has provided $165,000 in loans for such ventures as a catering service, a photography studio and a billiard hall. James O'Neill, who lost his $55,000-a- year job as a plant manager in August 1990, launched a worker's compensation consulting firm based in Westfield. "There was a period of doubt," he recalls...