Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underutilized. Some staffers noted wryly that Pappas got more airtime after being fired than before. "Who is really going to miss the Seattle bureau?" asks a veteran CBS correspondent. Stories in that area will now be handled by the Los Angeles bureau. Other bureaus will similarly pick up the slack elsewhere. "What we've done," says Stringer, "is redesign CBS News to move it into the 1990s, to make it more efficient...
Since November, Mr. Reagan has been engaged in a tug-of-war with political adversaries and determined truth-seekers. Should the president now let go of his end, the rope will go slack, and his antagonists will land in a heap. What Mr. Reagan forfeits in false pride he would gain in popular sympathy...
...inability of most high schools to do the counseling job has even led a few colleges to take up the slack. Says John Ruohoniemi, admissions director of St. Olaf College in Minnesota: "If the student is not right for us, we're going to suggest ways for him or her to find the right school." To Rice Admissions Director Ron Moss, his college's effort to help Houston high schoolers is simply a community obligation. "Colleges are a resource," he notes. "They have to come down out of their ivory tower...
...poverty of his formal means, there is no sign of this in Salle. He is a competent layout man, and can push his unrelated images around the picture with a certain finesse. But he can hardly draw at all. His line is slack and weak, "stylish" rather than imbued with style. What he does is trace, drawing lines around images cast on his oversize canvases from a projector. In this way he preserves some of the look of the original, as a taxidermist preserves the look of a cat. But the one is as dead as the other...
...Whitney Museum, the "appropriations" of Painter David Salle use images from mass media in smug, slack formulas...