Word: normale
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Much of the sculpture from the '70s sounds better--or, at any rate, odder--as a conceit than it looks on the floor or the wall. It may be that the impulse to multiply the height of the letters of his written name 14 times their normal size and then trace the result in neon tubing satisfies some inner necessity for Nauman, but for anyone who isn't Nauman, it's meaningless. And you soon lose interest in the "animated" neon pieces, with their spasmodic one-two, on-off movements of violence or puppet sex. They are one-liner...
...RELATE TO YOUR ARTICLE ON HUMAN error in hospitals, especially the incident concerning overdoses of medication [Medicine, April 3]. Five years ago, while waking up after minor surgery to overcome infertility, I received three times the normal dosage of an anti-nausea drug to counteract side effects of the anesthetic. No one considered my size, which is much smaller than the average adult. I experienced a horrific reaction. Luckily, the effect was not lethal, as it was in the case of cancer patient Betsy Lehman; but I was traumatized to the point of avoiding further surgery, which was recommended. That...
...situation regarding [workload] ratherthan personnel," Rowe added. "I think that we getmore inquiries than any other University in thecountry, and there is no normal week at Harvard...
Brown acknowledged in court that 62 percent of its varsity athletes were men and that women's teams did not receive the same funding and support as men's teams. The University then argued that somehow this was "normal" because women don't have the same interest in sports that men do. The university also noted that some women's teams were supported by private donations, not university funds...
...later, she says, "I told my boss, 'I'm not looking to create a big problem or a legal problem, but could you tell this person I am not for sale?'" It seemed to her that Bolduc was too far up the corporate hierarchy to challenge through normal channels. She later told Judge Tyler, "The big question mark for all the women he approaches is, '[What will happen] if I don't play along with him? Will I lose my job?'" She says she is still puzzled by Bolduc's behavior. "I could not believe he could...