Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America fascinated him. In his work he turned it into a country as schematized, imaginative and compelling as the America of the Weill-Brecht opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: flat horizons broken by buttes or movie palaces, bulbous baroque autos, all-leg girls and cowboys teetering on their high heels like stilts. Never vagrant or fussy, always economical, his line described conundrums that were at the heart of an artist's identity concerns: a little image, for instance, of a man with a pen whose drawn nib is drawing himself. To Steinberg, each drawing remade...
...reasoning depends on a dangerous assumption, that bus and subway riders should be responsible for financing the public transportation system themselves. Practically speaking, this is impossible: fares make up about 20 percent of the MBTA's budget, and for the system to be self-sustaining, rates would have to rise far more than 15 cents...
...team was not granted official court time for scheduled practices. In fact, players had to rise at the crack of dawn to take advantage of available court time at 7 a.m., a fact that could discourage many late-rising tennis aficionados...
...team was not granted official court time for scheduled practices. In fact, players had to rise at the crack of dawn to take advantage of available court time at 7 a.m., a fact that could discourage many late-rising tennis aficionados...
...think this will rise to the surface quickly as a priority," said Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations John Veneziano. "But we've taken no steps...