Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrouded by secrecy, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to assess his achievements. Beyond doubt, he possessed a visionary gift for applying the scientific breakthroughs of today to create the new products of tomorrow. With his encouragement, his companies developed the laser, communications satellites and a dizzying array of esoteric weaponry. As one senior Pentagon intelligence officer puts it, "He was something of a genius in understanding far-out concepts of electro-optical systems, infra-red sensors and other sophisticated gear from undersea to outer space...
...Crimson awoke from its winter's sleep in the bottom of the seventh for five runs on five hits and the usual array of errors and wild pitches which made spectators an endangered species by the end of the afternoon. Harvard did not come alive soon enough, however, as the rally fell one run short. Exeter added a meaningless run in the eight to close out the scoring...
...first American sculptors to achieve international renown: their work influenced Europeans as no previous New World artists' had, and with it American sculpture was seen to have transcended its provincialism at last. The task of describing the crucial period 1930-50, which saw the emergence of a dazzling array of technical options-movement in sculpture, open-welded construction, the use of found objects-and the rise not only of Smith and Calder but also of Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Joseph Cornell and Barnett Newman, has been elegantly done by Rosalind Krauss...
...glib posturing must have come easily to him even before he bought his first authentic-looking French beret. Still, the image would be all right if Mazursky did not spoil the effect by having his mother reply, "My life has not been very funny." Something lurks beneath this array of facades, but Mazursky will never let us see what is there...
...fact that 140,000 voters are designated as independents and can vote with either Republicans (who have 164,000 registered) or the Democrats (116,000). In the polling booths, all voters not only can indicate their preference for President (the "beauty contest") but also choose from a bewildering array of delegates either "pledged to" or "favorable to" a candidate. Neither George Wallace nor Henry Jackson are entered in the preference race but anyone can be written...