Word: variants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pencil the word Sky, on another River, on a third Mountain. Four packing-case-sized and identical boxes by Robert Morris, painted white and spaced at equal intervals on the floor. A row of what appears to be eight truncated shoeboxes, the work of James Seawright, each containing a variant of the figure eight in sometimes flashing lights, while every now and then a taped voice croaks out, "Eight." A flight of wooden stairs covered in gold-colored carpet, entitled Euclid by Joe Goode. A creation called Die by Architect-turned-Sculptor Tony Smith, which he admits he ordered...
...common in a more careless social stratum." But a woman is liable to develop hemorrhoids during pregnancy because of increased abdominal pressure. And in both sexes, some enlargement of anal veins is so common with the passage of years that Dr. Moore views it as "a normal anatomic variant of aging." Piles may be either internal or external, or a combination of both...
...after six years of stringent economic controls under the Labor government of Clement Attlee, the Conservatives swept into power on a variant of an Old Testament exhortation: "Set the people free." Last week, as the Conservative Party met for its 84th annual convention in the seaside resort of Blackpool, the old slogan echoed again...
...feature that electives in all years are taught at the same time and thus potentially available to all classes, divides the academic year into three 15-week of vacation. The middle 15-week of vacation. The middle 15-week period of each year would constitute the elective period. A variant of this arrangement would permit this trimester system to overlap with the second semester at other graduate schools so that medical students could seek electives in the university and electives at the medical school would be available to other students. By making the three periods 20, 15 and 10 weeks...
...Beer. Not to be outdone by the foreign competition, Britain's Ivor Davies staged a complex, explosive demonstration that involved a picture of Robert Mitchum and a male anatomical model with a heart that bled and realistic genitalia. Japan's Yoko Ono had a fey Zen variant on the dominant theme: she spread out a cloth on which she drew the outlines of people's shadows, then folded it up to take their shadows prisoner...