Word: staticity
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...most perfectly realized painting in this show has to be White Forms, circa 1955; the balance between the rushing black and the captured density of the static white seems exact, perfect and yet imperiled by the energy of movement. Such structures have a lot to do with the way New York City and industrial America generally were described by photography. When Walker Evans looked at the Brooklyn Bridge or Margaret Bourke-White at the Hoover Dam, they saw hieroglyphs of power; so, moving through Manhattan, did Kline. The graininess and stark contrast of Robert Frank's photos...
Scoring is a Washington term for estimating the impact of changes in tax and spending policy on federal revenue. Traditionally, economists and estimators use "static scoring," in which a cut or increase in taxes is presumed to have a directly proportional effect on revenues. In other words, if taxes are cut 10%, revenues fall 10%. Thus fiscal responsibility demands that tax cuts be paired with matching cuts in spending...
...scene: a squalid apartment. The cast: a restless, repulsive twenty-something and his friend and lovers. The mood: boiling over with directionless anger and intellectual energy, yet surprisingly static. What is this? "Reality Bites"? "The Real World...
...what's the problem? According to Business Week, the fifth-place finish reflects graduates' dissatisfaction with a static curriculum and unresponsive administration. The magazine's biennial ranking is based on a two-part survey involving graduates from 44 top business schools and representatives of 254 companies that actively recruit these graduates. While corporate recruiters ranked HBS number three, HBS's own graduates placed HBS 17th among MBA programs...
According to the publication, the fifth-place finish reflects graduates' dissatisfaction with a static curriculum and unresponsive administration...