Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open, tentlike forms. To show off the unique collection of ballet costumes, triangular booths were set in surrealist space across wide expanses of floor. Thus the viewer can wander around and encounter each costume-clad dummy individually, each as isolated and unexpected as a presence on a darkling plain...
Salaries are rising because skills are short, and anybody with a specialty-or plain verve and nerve-is greatly in demand. With unemployment down to a 15-year low of 3.3%, and want ads bulging in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times, there are more openings for $15,000-a-year engineers and $10,000-a-year computer programmers than the work force can possibly fill. People are hopping from job to job as never before, always searching for-and usually getting -the richer reward. Some jobs, of course, pay conspicuously more than others...
...this humble medium. At the Auguste Clot print shop in Paris, where Munch perfected his technique, he had to draw on lithographic stones, which were generally smaller than the canvases he used. Moreover, the presses of the day were only equipped to reproduce three or four elementary (and usually plain garish) col ors. Thus Munch had to stay with simple, intimate compositions-in which his natural gifts for boldness and symbolism were dramatized...
...case for some form of student participation in the committee's discussion in plain. The committee owes its existence to students discontent as it crystallized in the Paine Hall demonstration, and its explicit function is to investigate ways of meeting student demands for greater involvement in Faculty decision-making. Fainsod's group cannot hope to be effective unless it maintains constant and intimate contact with the constituency which is pushing for change...
...month predicting the same kind of success for the new project. But when the Light Company opened on January 7th, the unanimity that resulted was of another sort. Most critics saw some future for the company, but rejected its first offering as being heavy-handed, unimaginative, and just plain not funny...