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...could hardly come right out with it and say the works of Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis (quite apart from the thousands of yards of lyric acrylic on unprimed duck done by their many forgotten imitators) were basically huge watercolors. But there was little in the soak-stain methods of color-field painting that did not seek and repeat watercolor effects. The big difference lay in the size, the curtness and (sometimes) the grandeur of the image, and in the scrutiny it received from Greenberg's disciples, rocking and muttering over the last grain of pigment...
Students will have been taught by a variety of experts, including Congressional Aide Christophe Tulou from Delaware, who is aware that Americans soak up colloquialisms by osmosis. "What we're doing," says Tulou, "is consolidating the osmosis process." How's that again...
...last few years everybody but J. Press has discovered the franchise, and academics have discovered that you really don't need tweeds to soak up rays next to the pool of your Pala Alto home. Hot-shot academics--and their professional spouses--aren't quite so eager to jump when Harvard whistles them into the game as they were back when Stanford was a horse farm...
...those of you who ducked out of Cambridge early to soak up extra rays on the Florida beaches, the following is a recap of the news released on the eve of spring break...
...weather at the launch site. The temperature had dropped to 24 degrees F early that morning and had risen to only 38 degrees at the 11:38 a.m. lift-off. Buffeted by overnight winds of up to 35 m.p.h., the shuttle had gone through what meteorologists call a "cold soak," conditions more severe than those at any of the previous 24 shuttle launches. NASA manuals say that the solid fuel in a booster should be ignited only when the rubber-like mixture is between 40 degrees and 90 degrees . Morton Thiokol, the rocket manufacturer, also specifies that the fuel...