Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope that you enjoyed the adrenaline-rush of uselessly wasting my Board Plus money, and I'll see you around. You'll know me, I'll be the one logging forgetful classmates out of printers before using them, returning ID cards when I find them and checking my pockets before I leave class. --NEERAJ K. GUPTA
Perhaps next time, before you rush to criticize Mrs. Clinton, you will consider all the facts. Giving her a "down arrow" based on the results of two elections where the candidates had their own serious flaws is hardly warranted and demonstrates a remarkable lack of editorial judgment. MICHAEL O'MARY...
...office in the middle of the day and know you're doing something worthwhile for a good, worthy cause," she says. "I come back to the office feeling refreshed and more thankful for what I have in my life. It's like the same kind of endorphin rush you get from exercising...
...picture is much the same at the state and local level, where a different kind of feeding frenzy is taking place. Politicians stumble over one another in the rush to arrange special deals for select corporations, fueling a growing economic war among the states. The result is that states keep throwing money at companies that in many cases are not serious about moving anyway. The companies are certainly not reluctant to take the money, though, which is available if they simply utter the word relocation. And why not? Corporate executives, after all, have a fiduciary duty to squeeze every dollar...
Such was Pollock's problem. The picture in which he broke free from it--and, it now seems, took American art into a larger freedom with him--was the 20-ft.-wide mural he did for Peggy Guggenheim. He painted it in one outpouring rush, in a day and a night. Mural isn't by any means an abstract painting. It retains the essence of subject matter shared by most "classical" murals, from Giotto to Matisse--the projection of human figures on a large plane surface. But the movement isn't suave. The figures are arabesques, coiling, jammed together, recognizable...