Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ecstatic corona of motion. His linden- wood carving of The Archangel Raphael and the Young Tobias, 1516, is a tour de ! force of this kind. Though every crinkle of the figures' drapery looks natural, the planes of wood are whittled down to a fierce thinness, a buckling, bladelike sweep that from some angles seems to overwhelm the figure it surrounds and turn into a Nostradamus-like prophecy of 20th century constructed sculpture. These planes, screwing around the axes of arm and body, are given a momentum and self-sufficiency unique in the history of wood carving. Stoss's work, which...
...narrow sense, analog does also contain more information than digital. The sweep of the second hand defines every possible infinitesimal unit of time. But for most of us that is not the appeal of analog. After all, the extra information is of no use. It whizzes by too fast for the human eye to apprehend. When you ask someone for the time and he answers, "Four fifty-six and thirty-seven seconds," you know he's wearing a digital watch. If the fellow next to you has an analog watch, you might not even have to ask him. You simply...
...will support them? Providing pensions, health care and housing for this wrinkled cohort "will be as great a challenge as any the nation has ever faced," state Alan Pifer and Lydia Bronte of the Carnegie Corporation's Aging Society Project. Pifer, 65, predicts one major change: the Boomers will sweep away the tradition of retiring at 65 and continue to play a strong role in the workplace. "They are not going to let themselves be put on a shelf," he says...
...Navy's sweep of Penn gave the 15-3 Midshipmen--who have now completed their league schedule--outright ownership of the title, erasing the Crimson's hope of a comeback...
...varsity loss--marking the third consecutive year that the Crimson has failed to win the Adams Cup--cast a pall over a Harvard sweep in the morning's other races...