Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike Louis and Noland, Frankenthaler never worked in series; each picture was, to some degree, a new start. The pleasure was in the freshness. What is the central shape so comfily enclosed within the framing edges of Buddha's Court, 1964? A fat little figure, but vaguely so; the Rothko-like bars of color could indicate someone squatting in the lotus position. Yet it cannot have started from a figure: it is the sensation of calm presence that comes off the blues, in their association with tan and brown edges, that generates the "subject" of the painting. You still feel...
...underneath the popularity of many council policies, a curious pattern was taking shape. While the body had grown deft at latching onto high-profile issues, it had failed to show initiative in breaking new ground. Its contribution to the faculty recruitment issue, in fact, came more than a year after the Minority Students Alliance and other minority groups began the movement...
...terrible that when you bite the bullet you still spend $450 million more and complain about it, then you're in pretty rough shape...
...said Polaroid's experience helped shape the bill. The instant photography company, which is incorporated in Delaware, made use of a Delaware law that bars completion of a takeover for three years unless the raider either gets approval of the target company's board or buys 85 percent of its stock...
...Wesbrook women, Lee Blessing says in his haunting off-Broadway play Eleemosynary, are determined to be exceptional. The grandmother is a New Age visionary, the mother a science scholar blessed (and cursed) with total recall, the child a national champion speller who not only knows the shape of words but revels in their layers of meaning. (The play's coy title is a spelling-bee word meaning charitable.) Yet for all their brains, beguiling eccentricity and epic betrayal, the women are touchingly ordinary in matters of the heart. Every woman, and everyone who knows and loves one, will recognize...