Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peepshow" is, in fact, the name of this painting, also entitled" Code 2," to indicate that is a part of Ahr's latest series, "Code" Ahr says he calls these works "painted structures [because] they're not just plain surfaces...
...PLAIN folks, sending a telegram overseas usually costs about a dollar or two. But last week Washington spent $1.5 billion on a message to our allies and the Soviets. By okaying funds for the controversial MX missile and thereby ending years of rancorous debate, Congress showed for all the world its readiness to back President Reagan's peace through strength rhetoric with action...
...Though a plain-clothes guard stood watch during the protest, University Police Chief Paul E. Johnson denied rumors that he had approved round-the-clock surveillance...
...They did not set up an ad hoc in the plain sense of the world," said Starr." They reconvened an older committee that had already decided on a policy unfavorable...
There are two kinds of people: those who divide things into two categories and those who do not. Vladimir Nabokov is the first kind. In one of his earliest U.S. lectures, the Russian emigre told his classes at Stanford University that there were, essentially, "verb plays and adjective plays, plain plays of action and florid plays of characterization...