Word: successful
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WHAT THAT JOB exactly was became the unanswered question of the war years. Because there was no military goal except the defeat of the Viet Cong, the Army turned to measuring its success by the number of suspected guerrillas killed. Body counts-the grisly listing of how many Vietnamese killed each day-became...
Wolf said she sees two options for the city to control development--through zoning and use of public money. She conceded however, that the city has not had much success in heeding off real estate development and its accompanying and traffic congestion...
Costin also pointed to the outstanding play of rookie goalie, senior Tanya Humphreys, as instrumental in the Crimson's success...
Slim pickings indeed. On every other front, the success of the project continues to be phenomenal. We Are the World, currently No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, is the fastest-climbing single of the decade, and the biggest seller in the history of Columbia Records. To date, at least 4 million copies have been snapped up and often passed along. "People buy three, four, even five at a time," says Mark Tindle, marketing director of a Dallas distributor. "It's their way of giving to charity." The We Are the World album debuted this week...
Part of the secret of his success is that his eclecticism creates surface expectations of major art (complexity, depth, psychic intensity and so on) without discharging them in explicit meanings. He wittily exploits the affinity between artist and charlatan. A symbolist with roller skates, he moves very quickly across a vast terrain of appropriated motifs, and the results are usually banal. Even in today's morass of worthless "personal" imagery, it would be hard to find a sillier painting than one in the Castelli show of a green whirlpool a la Poe with a man and his separated genitals disappearing...