Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some libraries, which 70 to 80 years ago began to use a system that was good for their needs, now all of a sudden have to switch to a common system and they were reluctant to do so," he said...
...lesser man could have made a career out of repeating a style of such individuality (Raoul Dufy? Vlaminck?). But once Miró had perfected it, he abandoned it. In a transformation as abrupt as Picasso's switch from the soft-edged, attenuated figures of his blue period to the African ferocities of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Miró launched into his "dream paintings." These were derived partly from his fascination with his new surrealist friends in Paris, Breton and Eluard, and their talk of dream imagery, free association, irrational juxtaposition. And partly from plain hunger...
...rhythm boggles. More often than not, all three instrumentalists seem to play a note or more apart, creating more sonic splash than a complete collection of Carl Perkins records. The middle eight finds either Ivy or Gregory imitating the sound of static on a portable radio as you switch from one station to the next...
...must have been there a while to find the general light switch, which is hard to find," the witness said...
...mike switch: "Are you reading this? Come in! That's an order!" That brought the last transmission we were to receive from the entry team. A whispered