Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office informed students in the pre-registration packet that they would have to come to the office and sign a loan voucher before processing of the loans would begin...
...first sign of abnormally high tides, enormous pumps would force sea water into the dams, causing them to expand like hot-water bottles. Once full, they would protrude just above the surface of the sea, thus sealing the lagoon. When the danger subsided, so would the dams...
...overrate the density of Friedrich's allegories. There is, for example, a German critic's claim that the rock against which the little traveler in Landscape with Rainbow (circa 1809) is leaning is really "the symbol of faith" and that his hat on the ground is "a sign of humility." But often the symbolism is plain enough, as in a well-known picture usually called The Wreck of the "Hope" (circa 1822). Friedrich was inspired, at first, by reports of early expeditions to the North Pole, all of which failed. But the image he produced, with its grinding...
When Liberman sent paintings out to be fabricated by craftsmen or sign painters in the early '50s, other artists frowned on that as "mechanical." But in the next decade, when preplanned works made to the artist's order became an "issue," Liberman, who by then had gone back, or on, to a splashier style, was criticized for being too obsessed with the handmade object. He had exploited optical dazzle in works like After-image (1955) long before Op art was ever heard of. His use of chance and planned matrices foreshadowed the later interest in serial and process...
President Ford is expected to sign the bill; soon after he does, manufacturers will stop making the systems, and motorists can legally have them disconnected. As a replacement, the legislation suggests that the government develop regulations for a three-point lap-and shoulder-belt system that can mildly chide nonusers by lighting a dashboard warning signal and sounding a one-shot buzz for a mere eight seconds-but that will not prevent any driver from starting the engine or unbuckling en route...