Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about to shape up, however, thanks to pressure of two kinds. One is the recession, which has sent the unemployment rate up to 10.3%, and revenues plunging by $135 million. The other is the fact that the state is under a court order to come up with a new method for financing public education. In 1973, the State Supreme Court declared that heavy reliance on local property taxes created wide disparities in the quality of education. But the state senate blocked a $300 million plan submitted by Governor Brendan Byrne to rectify the imbalance because it depended on enactment...
...committee of college professors will use Harvard, along with a number of other private colleges, to develop a standard method of testing whether female faculty members are paid as much as comparable male faculty on college campuses...
...spake Allan Albert, producer-director of Boston's longest running show on the method behind the magic that has made "The Proposition" for seven years the country's most celebrated improvisational troupe. His explanation, though accurate, was tantalizingly superficial enough for me to wonder just what stuff this illusion is made of--what invisible strings are being pulled in a show like this? After having been "propositioned" a now for several years, I resolved that it was high time to go behind the scenes and find out for myself...
...strong presumption. As the various law-enforcement agencies compared notes, the presumption grew. Explained New Jersey's Bergen County prosecutor, Joseph Woodcock: "Most of the victims described the man's age between 40 and 45. They said the young boy was eleven or twelve. Basically, the method of operation was the same. The man seemed to cut electrical cords indiscriminately. He used some pieces to tie the victims, but he seemed to cut many more pieces than he needed to tie them up." There were other similarities: many of the women victims were forced to disrobe; sexual assault...
...reproduction can convey the subtleties of light and opacity Rauschenberg's method gives. The mix of forms is pale, apparitional and exquisite. This seems a long way from the declamatory harshness of his old combine paintings, but in fact, it pertains to a continuous theme of Rauschenberg's: ghost images, traces. The white paintings were made white to accept passing shadows. The De Kooning drawing was not erased to blank: a phantom of it stays on the paper. Rauschenberg's illustrations to Dante's Infer no (1960) were pale transfers from newsprint. But the Hoarfrost prints...