Word: synching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work and ordered her executors to destroy the contents of her studio. Fortunately, they disobeyed. Her friend Marcel Duchamp arranged an exhibition for her at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946, two years after her death, but it had no impact. Nothing could have been less in synch with the industrial-strength seriousness of postwar American painting than the froufrou, gilt and needling little ironies of Stettheimer's style...
...Philip Smith, his finance director at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, where D'Amato is in charge of recruiting, promoting and bankrolling Senate candidates nationwide. Smith isn't up to speed on a project. "Get with it!" D'Amato roars. "Get with the program! No! Get your brain in synch." He tries to restrain himself, but it's hard. He cracks the whip about fund raising--"I'm not happy! Speed it up!"--then checks on an event. "How much we gonna gross? Hell, you gotta do better! Fifty percent of that? All right. It's better than a stick...
What made him stand his ground? For one thing, he seems to be in synch with a majority of those questioned in a TIME/CNN poll taken after the speech. Asked about federal affirmative-action plans in language mimicking Clinton's, 65% said they should be "mended"; just 24% said "ended...
...later use. These are reconstructed scenes, emotion recollected in tranquility. In Room in New York, 1932, it is night; a man reads a paper at a round table, a woman turns away in her own absorption and boredom, touching the piano keyboard with one finger. They are out of synch, and their distance from each other is figured in the simple act of a woman with a shadowed face sounding a note (or perhaps only thinking about sounding it) to which there will be no response...
...contest is quickly shaping up as a race between a wounded Democratic incumbent and a Republican who is a two-time presidential loser of advancing years and whose record is scrambling to get in synch with the right-wing fervor of his party. Unhappiness with these options could yield a search for a new candidate...