Word: superealism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reardon described what some of the ratings mean: "A 'one' means you're really super. Bob Portney is a one violinist; a 'two' and you're a student body president or a newspaper editor; a 'three' means you're pretty involved, a 'four' means you go home in the afternoon and watch T.V., a 'five' or a 'six' and you never move...
Nearly all large-scale musical performance at Harvard is done in Sanders Theater, a building styled after a German Gothic cathedral, constructed to commemorate the Civil War dead. Plagued for almost a century by its non-functioning heaters in the numbing winters, super-retention of heat in the sweltering summers, and the perennial disturbance of sirens emanating from the fire station across the street, the otherwise perfect concert hall was shunned not only by performing groups, but kept audiences snug in the coziness of their homes and dorms while marvelous concerts were played to near empty houses...
There are a couple of exceptions to the request process. For instance, the office would never comply with a request from two super New York City-types to be mated with a third person from a small midwestern town so they can broaden their sociological horizons...
...Upstarts." All the summer offerings are in American art. This includes folk art paintings which look like their creation were pshchics, magicians, or the forerunners of mad scientists, artists who delighted in optical distortions. One gripping painting in warped perspective is of a girl whose eyes are painted in super sharp focus. The focus blurs out inconspicuously in everwidening circles so that the girl seems to stare intensely out of the painting and at first glance you can't understand...
...game pitted the college graduates against last year's Super Bowl champs, the Pittsburgh Steelers. The future pros led after the first half, 14.7, until Pittsburgh made its expected comeback and won the game...