Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeking a way to get color back into his work. In fact, it had not entirely left; browns, vermilions and rust-reds are buried under the black girders of the '50s. Contrary to received opinion, Kline had a strong instinct for color, and by 1961 it was at full stretch in paintings like Andrus, with its slashing chords of violet, ultramarine and cadmium red. Andrus, which was in Kline's last show, was named after his cardiologist; in the spring of 1962 his rheumatic heart gave out. Thus what Kline might have done with color--like what Pollock would have...
...reckon in about those terms," says New Jersey Republican Jim Courter, a member of the House Armed Services Committee who follows the space program closely. The moratorium could be shortened if the flaw turns out to be something that can be fixed fairly quickly. But it could stretch out for years if major modifications to the shuttles themselves or to the rockets that carry them aloft turn out to be necessary...
Cambridge activist Johnston demonstrated her"Stretch-A-Buck" campaign theme with a rubberdollar bill. She said the Gramm-Rudman law'srequired budget cuts could be made in "the fat,not the flesh" of the government's spendingprograms...
Today Shultz sees Reagan alone several times a week, for up to an hour at a stretch, frequently without any agenda. The Secretary sounds out Reagan on all manner of foreign questions and mulls over a variety of policy options, "thinking out loud with the President," as one Shultz aide puts it. Shultz's own self-effacing description, in an interview with TIME last week: "I try to give him my best advice and recommendations . . . but the President gives the leadership, and we try to work together on it. I will claim only to have been involved." Only once...
...anyone wonder, with such a divided team and such an unwise and misguided management, that some players don't seem able to summon up the extra effort for a stretch...