Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Between the four companies' main sets and their special card sets, there are over 2500 individual pieces of cardboard to buy. No kid can afford to buy them all, so the fierce competition has created an explosion of color and style. Gone are the cards that had plain lettering under a rectangular photo on a white background. Lone gone is Topps' 1977 set, which had maybe a dozen action photos...
...Italian, one French and one Spanish. Manuela Bertoni, one of the Italian teachers whose class was filmed yesterday, said. "This is the best group of students I've ever taught. When they prepare, they do well. When they don't, they do well. We didn't do anything special to prepare for being filmed...
Georgene B. Herschbach '62, director of Harvard's Office of Special Programs and a member of the committee drafting the survey, said she hoped three-quarters of the students would respond...
...make special efforts to encourage members of these groups to participate in the competition [for admission to the Review]." Kahan said. He added. "We're firmly committed to having diversity in perspectives and viewpoints of editors...
...absorb what this supreme moment of untainted modernism offered. In cubism, he felt, the subject was "killed, cut to pieces and its form and surface disguised." Chagall did not want to go so far, but the flattening, reflection and rotation of cubist form gave his early paintings their special radiance and precision. In Paris Through the Window, 1913, we enter a rainbow world, all prismatic light and jingling crystalline triangles. It is full of emblems of stringent modernity: the Eiffel Tower, a parachutist, a train upside-down but still insouciantly chuffing. It owes a lot to his friend Robert Delaunay...