Word: piled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first step everyone took in cleaning up was to drag all their possessions out of their homes and pile them in great muddy heaps in the streets. One could usually identify stores by the kind of merchandise stacked outside, if by little else. Many people appeared to ignore their damaged belongings, to cast them off forever. Others compulsively hosed and scraped items like radios and hair dryers which would obviously never work again...
...stale piece of french bread, topped with cold melted cheese and bloated with dressing loomed like King Kong on the pile of lettuce and called itself a crouton...
...recommends a candidate for tenure, the department chairman must submit to the Dean a list of scholars, outside as well as inside the University. From that list, the Dean and President select an ad hoc committee to judge the proposed appointment. This ad hoc committee then considers a pile of written material prepared and collected by the department chairman. Such material includes letters from the chairman and other members of the department, opinions of scholars inside and outside the University, a biography and bibliography of the nominee, a description of the search procedure, and a discussion of why this candidate...
Wilson has built this empire in only 20 years, having started out with little more than an idea. A risk-taking entrepreneur in the age of prudent professional managers, he is a visible refutation of the common belief that a self-made man can no longer pile up great wealth in the modern, highly developed capitalist economy. Now Wilson has a personal fortune estimated to exceed $200 million. Three years ago, the Sunday Times of London listed him among the 1,000 most important men of the 20th century, along with Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt...
...format -they are usually long, narrow rectangles, which drench the viewer in a field of color-but also in their light and density of surface. Resnick is a quite traditional painter, to the extent that he works in intimate, stroke-by-stroke contact with his painting. Brush marks pile on one another, forming a layered web of minutely graded pigment. (Some times the crust gets so thick that it is physically unwieldy: one large canvas in the show, Pink Fire, has 450 lbs. of paint on it.) The effect is not of a grand abstract-expressionist gesture, but rather...