Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quirks. Diebenkorn is a great stylist, and what gives life to style is a certain disequilibrium. These modest drawings clearly signal an interesting turn in his work. Will a series of paintings on the scale and quality of the Ocean Parks eventually come out of them? One would be rash to bet against it. -By Robert Hughes
...Rubik's Cube started out as a game. Then a cult developed and a rash of books told how to solve the puzzle. Now a Yale University professor is teaching a course on how to solve the multicolored cube...
...immediate pretext for Jaruzelski's action was Solidarity's growing support for rash proposals amounting to heresy in a Communist state, including a call for a national referendum on whether the government should remain in power. The union had also set Dec. 17, eleventh anniversary of the Gdansk food riots, as a day of national protest. But the government's massive military operation had been in preparation for a long time. Deployment of troops had begun at least a fortnight earlier. When authorities published a list of 57 dissidents who had been "detained," it was plain that the list...
Proposition 2 1/2--the rash, extreme tax cut approved a year ago by Bay State voters--had thrown yet another monkey wrench in the workings of city government. Fagone and his DPW crews were operating at half speed this weekend, and as a result the city's streets were unnecessarily slick and dangerous, and the city's public schools needlessly closed. And it will be worse next time, for the DPW budget is now drained. "It's going to be an enjoyable winter," Fagone said with a grim chuckle. "From now on, we're just going to watch it fall...
...parts unknown in its Hamlet. Cain describes the Prince in program notes as "always living at the limit of his destiny," a character who "stretches himself to and beyond his limits to make the world conform to his vision of it." Hamlet chooses once and for all to be rash, Cain says, in the "To be or not to be" soliloquy--which, incidentally, he reads...