Word: walke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them as you walk through campus. Some of them are dialing as they cruise through the Yard, others briskly chatting as they linger near the steps of Sever. Are these folks so popular that being inaccessible for several hours would be fatal to their social lives? Why all of sudden is our campus studded with cell phone owners...
...that the company pays Stuart for his counseling services is about a fifth of what it saves on hiring new people, according to Michael Hackett, vice president of human resources. ATS's turnover rate is 8%; the norm for the telecommunications industry is about 25%, he points out. "People walk around this place feeling better about themselves and their jobs compared with workers in other companies I've seen, since they know they have someone like Paul to talk to if they need to," Rowland says...
...officially anointed supermodels (in the fashion world, this is actually accepted as fact)--Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer and Kate Moss--have faded. Moss, Campbell and Schiffer only bothered to walk one catwalk each at last month's Milan fashion shows. Evangelista has retired, and Turlington is a student at New York University. Crawford, after co-starring in one bad Hollywood film, is trying to be a TV star, but her recent ABC special, Sex with Cindy Crawford, came in last in the ratings for its time period...
...amazing experience to walk through the central galleries of this show where the masterpieces of his career are hung, the huge all-over paintings of 1948-50. How did an artist who looked so unpromising at first attain this clarity, strength and command of scale? Not easily, and it is very much to the show's credit that it includes failures and partial successes along with the works that incontestably come off. It makes you more alert to the risks Pollock took. There were no rules for what he was doing; the besetting danger was always overcongestion of the surface...
...would walk around the canvas, throwing paint on it from the edges, and the loops and lashes that resulted have a grace and energy that his labored hand drawing never reached. Then there was the pouring, the overlay, one color bleeding into another, producing marbled effects, mists, separations, spots and speckles, each with its element of chance, but all controlled by the prepared mind that chance favors. And the retouching and linkages, done with a brush. "Glory be to God for dappled things!" the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once exclaimed, and that's what crosses one's mind in front...