Word: padded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Donald Schaefer, 59, likes nothing better than to devote a little more time to his one true love. He putters around the city's familiar alleyways in a 1975 Pontiac, gleefully noting potential sites for redevelopment, shaking his head at uncollected garbage, scowling at potholes. His observations fill pad after pad of "Mayor's Action Memos"-acerbic calls for remedial action that will be issued to his staff on Monday morning. Example: "Why is an abandoned car ... still visible to me and invisible to the impounders of illegally parked vehicles...
...Quincy House resident reported to police that the note pad hung on her door had been set on fire. The student said another note pad was burnt last month...
...shuttle could hardly have got off the pad without military support. In the early 1970s, when the space agency first sought funding for a reusable space vehicle to succeed the costly and expendable Saturn rockets that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon, many congressional leaders strongly opposed the ambitious new space adventure. Only when the Air Force threw its full political weight behind the shuttle did Congress vote funds...
...Soviet consumer is not easy. But just how tough can it be? The Moscow weekly, Literary Gazette, dispatched Correspondent Vil Dorofeyev to Krasnodar, a typical provincial city 735 miles south of Moscow, to find out. Dorofeyev was instructed to take only the clothes on his back and a pad and pencil, and to buy everything else that he needed on the spot. The seemingly simple assignment turned into a soap opera, Soviet-style...
...size alter the whole relationship, within the image, of photography (the source) to painting (the product). Sometimes, more recently, Close seems to abandon the grid altogether, transforming his standard face of Philip Glass into an almost rococo swirl of repeated fingerprints impressed on the canvas from an ink pad: a literal parody, if ever there was one, of the "sense of touch" in traditional painting. But always he seems to be after a kind of minimalist nirvana where, as he puts it, "every square inch was physically the same, where there was no area of more beautiful brushing or virtuoso...