Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted to hold the emotion," says Newman, "rather than waste it on picturesque ecstasies." There is nothing programmatic or descriptive about the resulting 14 Stations, put on view last week in Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. Each measures 68 in. by 72 in., contains ever so slight variations of vertical bands, each setting up harmonic tensions with the rest. Viewed under intense illumination, Newman's striped Stations seem to quiver with the vibrancy of lines of diffracted light seen through an electric arc spectroscope...
Then, with a slight sinking sensation, noticed something he hopes the Dean's office will overlook...
...proxy fight for full control. Last week, however, the drama ended suddenly with the old management still in control. Presumably because they had already spent $225,000 in legal battles, would need to spend at least another $200,000 on a proxy fight, and still have only a slight chance of winning, Siegel, 37, and Martin, 46, sold their stock for $11.8 million, picking up a profit...
...Waugh. An intellectual dandy, hardly a year out of Oxford and already weary of the world, dashed off a suicide note in classical Greek and then, as a mauve moon rose, swam wistfully out to sea. Not far out, however, his reveries of picturesque quietus were interrupted by a slight sting on his shoulder. A jellyfish! Shuddering in revulsion, he floundered to shore, jumped into his clothes and hurried home...
...stuff himself with steaks (sometimes four per meal), and get eleven hours sleep a night. It also entitles him to blow a round now and then. Like the awful 76 he shot in the Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas. Nothing to be alarmed about, said Jack-just a slight hangover. "I'm still reacting to the week of the Masters...