Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horse-have primarily an historical and anecdotal interest. The best come from an unsentimental brush, free from the snare of an over-appealing subject. A winter scene in Brooklyn, half way between landscape and genre, shows a section of New York City as a country town with a wood pile in the foreground and animals walking in the snow...
...Cone Crater, where they may find very ancient debris from the huge meteor impact that created the Sea of Rains some 300 miles away. Their most unusual exercise will probably be Haise's "footprint caper," during which he will plant his boot in a pile of soil and photograph the imprint. Purpose: to study the clinging power of moon dust...
...explosion in some sort of factory-because Morris' untitled pieces are not intended to represent anything. "What you see is what there is," says Morris. Since 1962, Morris watchers have seen him exhibit an 8-ft.-square slab of painted plywood, a tangled knot of rope, a pile of dirt, and himself, nude but covered with mineral oil, moving slowly across a stage while clasped in the arms of a lovely female dancer. Not everyone agrees about the value of these displays. But they have won 39-year-old Morris recent retrospectives at Washington's Corcoran Gallery...
...that point, Canadien Coach Claude Ruel, knowing his team was not only beaten but behind New York in goals scored, pulled his goalie in favor of an extra forward-just as the Rangers had yanked their goalie that afternoon in order to pile up scores against Detroit. But the Canadien strategy backfired: Chicago's defense held, and the Hawks poured five goals of their own into the empty Canadien net to win a 10-2 fiasco. For the first time in the history of the league, a play-off spot was determined by goals scored: New York 246, Montreal...
...Indecisive Boss. This executive is so paralyzed by fear of making a mistake that he lets major problems pile up on his desk while he becomes preoccupied with trivia. Charles Bowen Jr., president of the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, recalls that "one head of marketing for a large corporation spent his first six months almost totally concerned with the decorating of his office. There were things that needed his attention, but he could not face them...