Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this hasn't stopped Alaskans from going aggressively after a slice of the pie. The trustee council has received nearly 450 proposals from environmentalists, scientists, government employees, tour-boat operators, fishermen and others. There are a few oddball ideas, like dismantling the trans-Alaska pipeline, but most are worthwhile projects -- expanding wildlife refuges and parks, for example, or building fish ladders and establishing a marine public-information center...
...RELENTLESS STRUGGLE BETWEEN ATHLETES and team owners for a bigger slice of professional sports' financial pie, control of free agency has been the utensil of choice. Last week, following a 36-day trial, a federal court dropped the owners' favorite fork on the floor, ruling that the National Football League's limited free-agency plan was illegal and awarding four players $1.6 million in damages. The decision will probably lead to a less restrictive agreement and higher salaries...
...vast effect on modern art, but no modern artist has had more effect on advertising itself than Magritte. Yet there is never the slightest feeling that his work has been corrupted by its commercial reuse, and this is because of its clarity and intelligence. Magritte's paradoxes still slice cleanly. No matter how many times you see the small locomotive steaming from the living-room fireplace in his Time Transfixed (1938), with the mantel clock pointing to 12:43 and every grain line in the wooden floor in place, it will still come from behind its utter familiarity and surprise...
...little preferences of an individual play no role." It is meat-and-potatoes figuration, with no pretensions; if there were any pretensions in this world, where flotillas of loaves sail by in the evening sky like flying saucers and an innocent eye opens in the middle of a slice of ham on your plate, they would greatly reduce its credibility...
...Alan Pakula (Klute, All the President's Men) has bought it for the movies. What Donna Tartt has attempted -- and largely brought off -- is a challenging combination of a mystery (will they get caught or won't they?), an exploration of evil, both banal and bizarre, and a generous slice of the world as seen by the author, a brainy graduate of Bennington who has mastered Greek and English literature and doesn't care who knows it. It all adds up to confidence verging on bravura...