Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space and geometric calibration. What he wanted, and had found by 1947, was a much simpler, grander and more declarative kind of structure: opaque, ragged planes of color rearing up the surface, emphatic in their brush-work-none of the characteristic cubist tonal flicker-and engulfing in their sheer size. If cubism was the art of hypothesis, Still would contradict it with an art of crushing visual fact. In doing so he hoped to make a clean leap out of modernist history into images "not proven by a continuum," as he wrote to a friend in 1950: "I am myself...
Worse than the high interest rates is the sheer shortage of mortgage money. Usury laws in two dozen states limit interest rates to below 13%. Thus many banks and savings institutions have stopped making loans because it is impossible for them to earn any profit. Traditional lenders are also running short of cash because people are transferring funds from savings accounts to booming money market funds, which invest money in high-yielding securities and pay twice as much as passbook accounts. Perhaps three-quarters of the savings and loan associations in Chicago have stopped making mortgage deals...
...heart of the play, a gardener who can't say no to friends or enemies. Irrepressible in death, refusing to leave his son in peace, Da represents sheer goodness--sweetness--in a world that feeds on bitterness and evil. It is no coincidence that Da's death occurs in 1968, a year that symbolizes terrifying, violent upheaval...
...sheer fact of the politics-show biz mingling may be no cause for worry. Still, too intimate a consortium would do the country no good. The electorate should remain a skeptical and demanding constituency, but the ubiquitous looming of star performers does tend to turn it into a distracted audience. The capacity to achieve effects by glitter and glamour is not likely to inspire politics toward greater integrity. Nor are theatrical atmospherics apt to move the public to examine more soberly issues that too few Americans take seriously even...
PENN at HARVARD--With a combined 1-13 record and sheer embarrassment looking both teams in the face, the Puritans will rise to erase blasphemy and restore respectability. In the spirit of old New England: Harvard 23, Penn...