Word: sheet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call her a night owl, she describes herself as a "dawn person"; she likes to rise at 4:30 a.m. and start work, sometimes on the big constructions she is best known for, sometimes on the multitude of studies-a mere fragment of wood glued to a dark mounting sheet-that she produces in lieu of drawings and that form teetering stacks in the upstairs studios...
Smokey Robinson: Warm Thoughts (Tamla/Motown). Smooth as a satin sheet and far more sexy. Smokey's not just the soul master; he's the man who teaches the masters...
...first to be a big flat rectangle pasted to a white wall, dark gray in color with perhaps a greenish cast: undifferentiated, banal. But as you approach it, corners appear within its surface, as though reflecting the gallery in which you stand; perhaps this is a dark, smoky sheet of mirror? Not at all. "This" does not exist; it is nothing more than a hole in the wall, giving onto another room, which seems to be filled with a gray-green mist. The surprise of this dissolution of substance into absence is so intense, and yet so subtly realized, that...
...University of Connecticut, then returned to Harvard's Graduate School of Education, where she is a second-year student. Although she was permitted to reenter the University system, there remains a visible reminder of her transgression--in large block letters taking up a good third of the transcript sheet are stamped the words, "Required to withdraw...
...General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth, one of Cincinnati Milacron's T-3 robots makes sheet-metal parts for the F-16 fighter. The T-3 selects bits from a tool rack, drills a set of holes to a .005-in. tolerance and machines the perimeters of 250 types of parts. A man doing the same job can produce six parts per shift, with a 10% rejection rate. The robot makes 24 to 30 parts, with zero rejections. The machine costs over $60,000 and has saved $93,000 in its first year...