Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mather House, we were told last spring, would be finished by November. Meanwhile, we are to be spread out as thin as possible among the suites in the rest of the Houses so maybe nobody will notice we're there. I ask the Eliot House supervisor for my key. On the House list there is a large star next to my name. "You're a Mather House sophomore." he says with distaste. "You boys sure are causing a lot of trouble for us here in Eliot House...
...Clark financed the project himself, and constructed it in the basement of the Harvard biology laboratories. It is basically a welded steel frame the size of a single bed, covered by a thin plastic dome. The dome is supported by a nylon net. It is designed to be installed by two or three divers...
...movement, Pop is perhaps ebbing. But as its shock value wears off, it is easier to make judgments. The thin, acrid sensibility of Andy Warhol remains naggingly insistent, an idiosyncratic talent that can be derided but not dismissed. Lichtenstein's works are admired for their sharp elegance, Rosenquist's for their painterly quality, Jim Dine's for their intimacy. But each seems to have settled into the styles established by his own success. The one among them who seems to have continuously moved into progressively new and different areas, blithely leaving his successes behind him, is Claes...
Each feature was charted in color on a separate transparent map. When McHarg superimposed all the maps atop each other, he saw, shining through the colors, a thin line of white that marked the highway's optimum route. Later he used the same method to pinpoint exactly where different land uses should occur with "the least costs and greatest savings and benefits on all of Staten Island...
...Thin on Diet. Nobody knows what the campaign will eventually cost. Much of the money will be paid by the bottler-distributors-provided that Coke can persuade them to come across. Franchise contracts are now so liberal that bottlers can do things that dismay headquarters-for example, placing some Coke signs on outhouse walls. At next week's convention, Coca-Cola will introduce a "modern" contract designed to give the company tighter control...