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Word: pictographs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both shocked and dismayed at the inaccuracy of the pictograph accompanying the page one story concerning the housing lottery. Though we are all social science majors, we know of no mathematical formula whereby 16 percent is represented by the same number of stars as 14 percent. However, this is precisely what occurred when The Crimson depicted those freshman indicating they would choose either Winthrop House or Adams House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Startling Mistake | 3/12/1985 | See Source »

...projection. But there is one unusually gifted land artist at the Hirshhorn, Lita Albuquerque. By dusting isolated stones or strewing sharp, evanescent blotches of pigment in desert places (the color is then blown away by the wind), Albuquerque produces an exquisitely fugitive interference with the landscape, like a fleeting pictograph, an acceleration of cultural time in the great stasis of nature. Her single rock in a glass case at the Hirshhorn, unnaturally glowing under its pall of red dust, is as startling as an asteroid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quirks, Clamors and Variety | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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