Word: patch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been controlling space with color, vigilantly monitoring the exact recession of a blue or the jump of a yellow, the imbricated weight of a dark area against the open glare of unpainted canvas. Color is the chief subject of her pictorial intelligence, her main vehicle of feeling. But every patch of color must have a bounding edge, and Frankenthaler's edges tend to wobble; they are overcomplicated; in some paintings, like Flood, 1967, they just go limp. She is undistinguished as a drafter -- in fact, some of her mature style is an evasion of drawing -- and this helps account...
...Luxor, it is threatened by landslides from a nearby mountain. The most likely remedy is a + chain-link fence to protect the monument from falling rocks. Meanwhile, the Polish Center of Archaeology in Cairo has been doing restoration work on parts of the temple. One project: using gypsum to patch up and refinish a statue of the god Osiris...
When Mikhail Gorbachev first sowed the seeds of democracy, no one could have foreseen that they would mature so quickly into grass-roots revolutions like the Estonian Popular Front. There may be times, in fact, when the Soviet leader must wonder if he has planted a brier patch. The Estonian initiative has given rise to other popular fronts in the Baltic states, but its indirect impact has been far greater. It has become a model for an amorphous mass of unofficial political groupings and single-issue movements across the country, championing causes long ignored by the party and government bureaucracy...
...four steps of University Hall had its own leadership and prolonged discussions through the night time hours about what our posture (political and physical) would be if and when a police bust happened. For years afterward, I wore those orangish brown wool pants with pride--my Mom had patched with a big black patch the rip at the knee from getting knocked down the steps by the cops. Did I get clubbed, kicked, or shoved down the steps? I don't know; I shut my eyes when they got within a few yards of me."--Dale Borman Fink...
...strength last week in the state senate, which passed a bill to extend the life of his agency. The acid test may come when Republican Governor Bill Clements, no Hightower fan, decides whether to sign the measure. A veto could send Hightower packing to his backyard tomato-and- okra patch. But the feisty populist is unlikely to moderate his radical position. As he has said, "There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos...