Word: lumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living increments, members of Local 6 (average age: 56) will receive a $2,500 bonus if they retire during the next six months. As an added enticement, retiring printers can exchange a guaranteed six-month leave for a half-year's pay plus the bonus, giving them a lump settlement of around...
...grossly unfair to lump rock's wizard, Todd Rundgren, with such untalented transvestites as the New York Dolls, just because he wears brocade, sequins, mascara and rouge...
...sales slump, and is trying to trim its workforce in the nicest way possible. Of the 106,000 eligible employees, only the first 2,700 to apply will be able to collect the payments, which include one month's salary, full vacation pay for this year and a lump sum based on the individual's wages and years of service...
...lack of rhythm also detracts from and sometimes interferes with an objective reading of the book. Her lines don't flow smoothly and lump together like coagulated oatmeal. "Five seagulls, circumflex accents, drift by." She displays a penchant for using formalistic inversions which add nothing but stiffness to the line: "that five-petaled sun/folds all its fruited segments out..." Spivack tends to generalize about the whole human race, instead of speaking from her own personal experience and leaving it at that...
...abstraction. The painting becomes an exemplary one in Giacometti's work because its real subject is the artist's lifelong obsession as a sculptor: the enormous difficulty of seeing anything clearly at all and the near impossibility of truthfully remaking what is seen into a lump of clay or a scribble on paper. Giacometti saw his own efforts as condemned to frustration. "There is no hope of achieving what I want, of expressing my vision of reality. I go on painting and sculpting because I am curious to know why I fail...